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

  • Edmund Chishull
Date:
1747
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    the marine with almofl continued villages, as alfo two caftles in the narrowed part, it extends about eighteen or twenty miles, as far as the antient rocky dies of the Symplegades, which feem to open and fhut, as one advances to them in the Bofphorus \ The larged of them is fituated on the European fhore, and till lately bore an antient Corinthian pillar, to which a vulgar error has given the name of Pompeys column. It was ere&ed noton a regular bafis of its own, but upon an antient heathen altar, that now only re¬ mains; the fhaft and capital of the pillar, which have lately fallen, being yet vifible in four pieces among the cliffs of the rock. On the aforefaid remaining altar may be read this infcription in large Roman letters. DIVO CAESARI AUGVSTO L. CL. ANNIDIVS L. F. CLAV. FRONTO1 Returning from this pillar we ftept on the adjoining fhore, to fee the large and lofty lantern there ere&ed for the dire&ion of mariners at the entrance of this difficult ftrait. About four miles from hence, in returning thro the chanel, we go afhore on the European fide to vifit a famous convent of Greek priefts, by the name of Mauromolosy feated in the cliff of an hill, and enjoy¬ ing a beautiful church, adorned with many rich pieces of religious furniture; as books bound in covers of maffy Elver; an dyia-sruto], or [acred curtain 3, wrought both richly and artfully in filk and golden figures; and a fet of painting not of the vulgar fort, but regular and proportionable, the moft curious of which was done in Mufcovy. Thefe fathers are exempted from their harach, on account of a prefent of excellent fair cherries, once prefented to the Grand Signior. Over a fountain, that ferves the convent with water, they have this device, not more proper for the place, than ingenious for the contrivance, in making the fame words read forwards or backwards: NITON ANOMHMATA MH MON AN OTIN *■ I was this day a witnefs of the ftrong current flowing towards the Propontis from the Euxine fea, as I had before obferved it to 1 Concerning thefe fee Pliny, Lib. iv. 3 See Du Frefne, Glcjfar. Graec. Fab. i. cap, 13. cper. praemiJJ. 1 See Gruter, pag. ccxxviii, and JVheler^ 4 This is part of an epigram, E(VA«fu)V« pag. 207. Teifior, Antholog. Lib. \\. p. 563. force