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and Alexander the son of Alexander the Great*, chap. 
X. 
And, as if it were destined in after-ages to main- 
tain a pre-eminence among- the scenes that have 
witnessed human slaughter, it was at Kitros, 
and along this road to Salontca, that the French 
prisoners, when compelled by the Turks to 
march from the Morea to Constantinople, suffered 
every cruelty that the malice of their enemies 
could inflict: many of them, after seeing their 
drooping companions put to death by their 
conductors, because they were unable, through 
sickness and fatigue, to continue the route, 
were constrained to carry the heads of their 
comrades in sacks, that an accurate return of 
the whole number might be made upon their 
arrival in the capital. 
From Kitros w€ went to the village of Leute- Leuter^- 
rochori\ situate upon an eminence near the 
gulph, distant about five miks from Kitros*. 
(2) Justin. Hist. lib. xiv. c. 6. 
(3) Signifying " the free village," according to Dr. Holland, who 
says that " this district is the most easterly part of the territory of 
All Pasha. Here commences the territory governed by Ismael Bty 
of Seres. • Holland's Trav. p. S09- Lond.\g]b. — The name of this 
village is corruptedly pronouueed Leftskoi by the natives. 
(4) We were only one hour in going thither ; which, at the usual 
rate of travelling in Turhey, makes it rather less than five miles : but 
distances computed by time are not to be relied upon, unless per- 
formed with caravans of camels, which are generally preceded by aa 
ass going a foot's pace, at the rate of a league an hour. 
chori. 
