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Milosch was born, and where he still has some plain country 

 houses, as well as the small plain near it which formed the last 

 refuge for the Servian troops, with their families, when they 

 were beaten by the Turks. 



Turkey is pretty well stored with antiquities, and localities 

 where important events have happened. For my part, I take 

 more pleasure in the latter, as the remains of antiquity are ge- 

 nerally in a most defective state in that country. In these loca- 

 lities I still find every thing nearly in the same condition as it 

 was when the event happened ; but I am grieved and annoyed 

 to perceive, on spots once beautifully ornamented, or crowded 

 with inhabitants, only the debris of walls, miserable looking 

 stones, or still more miserable-looking new buildings with their 

 semi-barbarous inhabitants, and sometimes disfigured with the 

 names of foolish travellers. In such cases all illusion must at 

 once cease, for any one who has not been born a poet. 



The antiquities in Turkey are Grecian, Roman, Servian, and 

 Turkish. Among the first we may, I think, place the great 

 tumuli which are found in Macedonia. They are conical hil- 

 locks of the height of 10, 20, or 30 feet, or even more. I ob- 

 served two small ones between Malocelo and Pobovdol, on the 

 road from Dubnitza to Radomir, and there are two others some- 

 what higher on the western side of the high road from Djumaa 

 to Dubnitza, opposite to the beautiful village of Rilo. It ap- 

 pears that this village (which is situated at the entrance of one 

 of the great valleys of the Despotodagh), or at least the culti- 

 vated valley near it, was formerly the site of a town ; and coins 

 are still occasionally found there. The same thing also some- 

 times occurs in the neighbourhood of Radomir, where I was 

 shewn some Roman imperial coins. I saw a small tumulus to 

 the W. of Langosa, and another at 1 1 leagues to the N, E. of 

 Salonichi ; but the greatest number and the highest are near 

 Pella, to the N. of the road to Salonichi ; of these I counted 

 eight. Possibly they were formerly near some high road, as 

 there appear to be traces of pavement underneath the grass and 

 thistles. Others must decide if these tumuli, which are not 

 mentioned by Cousinery in his description of the neighbour- 

 hood of Salonichi, are true Grecian monuments, or wliat^they 

 are ; but it happens, singularly enough, that there is near Al_ 



