Travels in Turkey and back to England / By the late reverend and learned Edmund Chishull.

  • Edmund Chishull
Date:
1747
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    April iii. We continue anchored at the fame place, being all this day entirely becalmed. And the day following, the calm haying changed into a contrary wind detained us dill at the fame anchor. But however difagreeable this interruption in the courfe of our voyage might prove to fome others of the company, the leifure of thofe two days was to me very grateful. Nor could I edeem it any lofs of time, but rather an advantage, on account of the favour¬ able and unexpected opportunity it afforded me of vifiting two fo famous cadles, together with the villages adjoining to them \ Going afhore therefore in the captain’s pinnace to the town on the Allan fide (formerly called Abydos a, but by the Turks FJki IS!atolia Hifar) with great pleafure I walked about the place, but found no footdeps of antiquity1 * 3. The town is large, but mean; yet famous for a curious fort of earthenware finely glazed, which is made here, and vended in great quantities. The cadle is in¬ tire, of a fquare figure, with badions projetding at each corner, and with one fide flanks the water on a level fhore; where are to be feen betwixt twenty and thirty vaft guns, fuch as perhaps are no where elfe to be found, except in fome other parts of Turkey. They are of brafs, and have a bore at lead; three quar¬ ters of a yard diameter ; and are charged with done bullets of the fame dimenflons, which lie at hand fpherically cut. The charge of powder, as I was informed on the place by the barut agd of Smyrna, is an hundred and five o/ces. From Abydos I eroded over in a fmall wherry to Sefios 4, that is, from Natolta to Rumeli Hifar, and in the way obferved the art of the boatman in avoiding the force of the current, a circumdance mentioned by Strabo 5. This town Hands on a precipice, decending deeply to¬ wards the fea fhore ; and is better built, tho lefs, than Abydos. It has a cadle confiding of a triangular tower, enclofed within 1 Polybius makes the breadth of the Iiel- 'Ia«'*, x, isVcv «V sroAsw? lefpont here to be no more than two far- c%&lu) Slnli]Jeiov, &{pA/« re e7n/£a7o, ^ T«_ longs, L.ib. xvi. p. 735. t) els vvj/^ oLAswir oVs^ oly^p/. \wj 1 In fome modern prints Aidos. The cgxv eve?i Sin tov 'EHxrmrovlov ktaL<t/v. Zofim. moft memorable fiege of this place by king Lib. ii. pag. 105. ed. Oxon. Philip of Mccedon is related by Livy, Lib. 4 Europamque Afiae, Sejlonque admovit xxxi. cop. 17. Abydo. Lucan. Lib. ii. $r 674. 3 TivoA@r 3 /mIoc^C t?,- 5 Lib. xiii. pag. 59.