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stantial cottages, prove the comfortable state of the tenantry. Foun- 

 tains or wells for the use of travellers are made along the roads. It 

 was here that the ancestors of Hadim Oglou lived in feudal dignity 

 and patriarchal hospitality ; and he is the first of his family who has 

 suffered himself to be tempted from rural independence to accept the 

 public employments of the Porte. I have before mentioned the 

 heavy contributions that have lately been levied, upon- him at the 

 Dardanelles, and his old tenants are beginning to fear that he must 

 oppress them in turn, and that in no long time he will be the victim 

 of some revolution in the ministry, and thus bring on the extinction 

 of a family that has for ages been a blessing to the country. Baira- 

 mitche contains about six hundred families, and has a large well-built 

 Khan or Caravanserai for the accommodation of travellers. In this, 

 we were told, two of oar countrymen had lodged a few days before 

 our arrival. 



In one of the streets we observed a granite sarcophagus, used as a 

 cistern of a fountain ; it is six feet long and two feet deep. There is 

 an inscription on it in very ancient characters, but we could only 

 decypher the following words KAIKOOANEIA HENO<f>AEI. The latter 

 is the name Xenophae, and we find a similar termination in Calliphae, 

 a name of one of the Ionian nymphs. * In the yard of a house be- 

 longing to a Greek We saw a small marble statue of a female, nearly 

 entire, of admirable workmanship ; the folds of the drapery appear 

 a little raised by the left knee. In the house of the same Greek was 

 the head of a much larger statue. [Some remarkable ruins were dis- 

 covered by Dr. Clarke, about two hours distance from this place, at 

 Kouchounlou Tepe. — E.] 



The difficulty of procuring horses detained us at Bairamitche until 

 noon. As soon as our friendly host had provided them for us, we 

 set out for Kaz-Dag, almost deterred by the reports we heard from the 

 hope of being able to reach its summit, though we were resolved to 

 proceed at least as far up as the source of the Mendere, whose wind- 



* Straboj lib. viii. 



