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ASIA MINOR. 



March 19. — We crossed this little stream by a bridge, and con- 

 tinued our route by the side of a fresh-water lake nearly three miles. 

 Not far from the shore on our left was a conical mound, supposed to 

 be the Tumulus of Peneleus, and between us and Bounarbashi arose 

 the conspicuous barrow of Udjek-Tepe, or the tomb of iEsyetes. 



On our arrival at Yeni-keui, or Neachore as the Greeks call it, we 



stopped a short time to examine the church of the village, where we 



copied a Latin inscription. 



C. MARCIVS. MARSVS 

 V. F. SIBI ET SVIS. 



Here we found a communicative Greek shopkeeper, who gave us 

 the following information respecting the state of this part of the 

 Troad. 



Neachore contains about a hundred families, all Greek Christians ; 

 of these, seventy are land-owners and farmers, and thirty labourers 

 and shopkeepers. Instead of the government-osour, which ought 

 not to exceed a tenth of the produce, the rapacious Aga who buys 

 it of the Porte, takes about an eighth from the cultivator. The 

 charatch or capitation-tax is thus levied : Adult men pay five 

 piastres a year or 7s. 6d. ; youths three, or 4s. 6d. ; and boys two and 

 a half, 3s. 10c?. each. Neither women nor children are rated to 

 this tax. At the vintage a tax of a penny an oke or about lid. a 

 quart is paid to an officer of the Porte called the Sheraub-Emir, 

 before it is put on board any vessel to be carried coast-wise. 

 Husbandry servants have board, lodging, and clothes provided at 

 their master's house, and wages varying from 60 to 115 piastres, 

 or 4/. 10s. to eight guineas a year, besides the produce of three 

 bushels of corn which they are suffered to sow without any expence 

 on a piece of their master's land. 



Young women are mostly employed in spinning cotton ; their 

 average work is a hundred drachms in four days, for which they 

 receive 25 paras, about a shilling, a loaf of bread worth two-pence, 

 and a dish of kidney beans or some other pulse, of nearly two 

 pounds weight. 



