A EIDE TO MAGNESIA, 



[MAG A. FEBRTJAKY-MABCH 1847.] 



STAGE FIKST. 



SMYKNA is a capital starting-point for Eastern 

 expeditions, though it is too full of giaours of 

 every description to be, in itself, a fair specimen of 

 orientalism. The man would carry home a queer 

 account of Turkey who should begin his notes at 

 Smyrna, and, passing up the Dardanelles, make up 

 his book as he travelled overland from Constanti- 

 nople to Jannina, en route to Tower Stairs. This is 

 the approved track, or perhaps it may be up the 

 Danube in the Austrian steamer. Such an expedi- 

 tion is capital fun no doubt, and to be recommended 

 to any of our friends with a little loose cash and 

 some six weeks' holiday. It introduces to many 

 notabilities, first-rate in their way, but not to that 

 singular notability, the genuine old Osmanli. He 

 is a branch of the ethnographical tree that will not 



