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FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
^^^^- between Methone and Alorus, which seems to be 
<* '•' the reading in this instance, Lehdno is not situate 
far enough towards the north. 
Inge 
Mauro 
Yerrj, 
Mauro- 
Kviack 
Ferrv. 
We left this village two hours before sun- 
rise ; and continued our journey along the plain 
at the extremity of the Gulph ofTherma, at some 
distance from the sea, to avoid the swampy 
shores, and the mouths of the rivers, which 
were all inundated. Then we turned to the 
right ; and in two hours came to a large river, 
which was much flooded, called Inge Mauro. 
This river we passed by a flying bridge. A 
poor Turk attended the ferry, living in a 
wretched hovel constructed of osiers and mud. 
We observed here a change in the dress of 
the female peasants. Over the white cotton 
Albanian shift and short petticoat, they wore 
a black vest made of goats' hair, without 
sleeves ; and for their head-dress, white cotton 
handkerchiefs, with bunches of red silk over 
their foreheads, and silver ornaments in their 
ears. Continuing our journey across wet and 
dirty plains, we arrived, in three hours from the 
Inge Mauro ferry, at another large river, with a 
similar mode of passage, called Kara-smack by 
the Turks, and Mauro-smack by the Greeks ; the 
