TO SMYRNA. gg 
(Triglochin paluftre) which I found to the north- 
ward of this field. If I had not been able To dif 
, rn with m 7 eyes, and confirmed by the inhabi- 
tants that this place formerly Rood under water 
! s P^ ant had Deen fufficient to convince me and* 
others who know us nature, and that through 
the whole world it grows in fuch places, where it 
fome reW fr0m an earth that ha :h 
tome remains of fea fait. 
ofNlV n K in f l,M i 0 , a r tO fee the inland fituation 
fer ^ a ’, bef01 T 1 Iefc lts coafts > ^d therefore 
et out on the iith of March for Magnefia, which 
fun rife” traVell,n § f rora Smyrna. 1 fet out at 
f ervant’and 0mPan T d Dro § mai1 ’ an Arminian 
Which" if a 8Ulde * ■ We Were a11 weU armed, 
queurlvn f”- 17 , ‘n this country, and fre- 
horfe - nCCC t ry m the fhortefl jonmey. We took 
d av :' /o m r , he eatavan, which goes every Wednef- 
hour’ s l^n ay f r° m S T 7l ' na t0 Ma S nefi a. In one 
i travelling from the town we came to a laree 
turLi C ° Vered W1 i h ^live-trees, and in feme places 
Vera vih t0 COrn ^ , Round thcfe fields were fe- 
had Ins feaT’in n R Cr command of an Aga, who 
handfomelt ’ “J ° f the lar § eft and 
Profnpj? ™ tnis we law a quite different 
one who th ‘ S r° ° dd ’ tbat 1 doubt whether any 
have anvSf 8 T**" the Eaftern countries can 
like the hiffM °n “ 5 a J mixture of hills and vallies. 
In no JL gh blll -° WS aud S ul P hs in a boilterous fea. 
We call ea " p aS 11 m ° re , evident that the continent, 
the fea. tp m tbe be S in ning the bottom of 
Pome beino- a “ S Were ln tbeir form unequal, 
c onick figure fiat A I° Wa " d l tlle to P 5 others of a 
Pofed of fa J t d ! ftance the y kerned com- 
b eing cover el p a 1 Vt ’ ca y> or i° me other earth, 
a 0Vered With mould and plants. But at a 
^ nearer 
