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August 18, — Went to Ourangick, which is about an hour's distance 

 from Salonica. The environs appeared more pleasant than the gene- 

 ral scenery of Greece, and presented a cultivated corn country risint)^ 

 into small hills ; the vales were watered by rivulets running through 

 beds of argillaceous slate, and were planted with cotton and melon 

 grounds. At this place are the different villas of the European 

 merchants. From the hill above Ourangick, the view extended over 

 a large tract of country, part of the ancient Macedonia ; on one side 

 was a plain, with the lakes of Yabasil and Beshik Seir ; beyond the 

 gulf of Salonica, was Olympus on the opposite coast of Thessaly. 



Notes by the Editor. 



54. Caught near Smyrna and Mytilene. — Belon, p. 5. 



55. Goumish-balluk of the Turks. 



56. Called Kephal-balluk by the Turks. 



57. crapiEXKct in Forskal. 



58. syxpota-'ixoKoi, anchoiae, ut placet doctos, Insubrium ct Massiliensium. Cas. ad 

 Ath. lib. vii. p. .SOI. 



59. The carp is called in ^tolia, says Belon, Cyprinus .- and Gyllius remarks, that the 

 word is used by some of the Greeks. Beckmann, iii. 145. Norden saw it caught near 

 Assouan in Egypt. The Turks call it Sassan-balluk. 



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