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be recognised. Near Novibazar, and at Banya near Nissa, 

 there are Turkish baths or octagonal buildings, lighted from 

 the top, and containing an immense basin of hot water, with 

 two other small rooms for vapour baths. Adjoining the baths 

 at Banya I observed an old building with a ruinous minaret ; 

 the. great gate was ornamented in a singular manner on both 

 sides, having on the one an inscription, a horse, and an ear of 

 com, and on the other a king and a hare. I cannot say if there 

 are many old paved roads which owe their origin to the Turks, 

 but most probably there are only few, although it would ap- 

 pear that formerly the roads were occasionally in better order, 

 the Christians being obliged to work at them, which is not now 

 the case. I also doubt if the stone bridges at Uskup on the 

 Vardar, and at three leagues to the east of Kostendil on the 

 Strymon, are Turkish : I shomd be inclined to think them 

 of an older date, although they are not at all elegant, and the 

 arches of both, especially that over the Strymon, are clumsy and 

 sharp-edged. 



Some of the old remains of fortifications are also probably 

 Turkish : I saw some of this description to the west of Langosa. 

 Old burying places are very common in Turkey. They are 

 not always surrounded by walls, and are placed near the high- 

 way or on it, often very far from villages and towns. Many 

 travellers have been inclined to regard these as the ruins of de- 

 stroyed or deserted villages ; but, in fact, many of them are 

 nothing more than the burying-grounds of the nomadic tribes 

 of Albania, who either live not very far from the burying- 

 ground, or return to the spot, and bury their dead in the same 

 place as their ancestors. In Servia burying-grounds are also 

 sometimes isolated, and they do not always bury the bodies 

 deep enough ; and thus the pigs occasionally open up the 

 graves, or at least destroy the wooded frames -which are placed 

 over them. 



(To he concluded in our next Number.') 



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