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endeavouring to attain this object. An overland 

 communication has been already established for 

 the transport of passengers, and it is to be hoped 

 that in a few years, there will be a water con- 

 veyance for merchandize, avoiding the Sulina 

 mouth, and the probable interruption of the trade 

 by Russia, as well as shortening considerably the 

 distance by water to Constantinople. 



The next day, we came to Galatz, a large town 

 on the Moldavian shore, where consequently we 

 could not land, because there is a quarantine of 

 five days between Turkey and Moldavia or Walla- 

 chia. Here the talkative little Moldavian beauty 

 left us to go into quarantine at the lazzaretto, 

 about three miles off. We regretted her depar- 

 ture, as she certainly was pretty and very good- 

 natured, had made herself agreeable, and occa- 

 sionally caused us great amusement, which is 

 always an advantage in a long voyage. Here 

 there is an immense trade in corn carried on. I 

 observed a large number of ships of all nations in 

 quarantine, loading, by having the corn pitched 

 down a trough, placed in an inclined plane, at 

 the bottom of which the men belonging to the 

 ship held a bag to catch it, the corn being thus 



