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countries. From this place to Mount Athos chap. 
they reckon the distance as equal to sixteen ■ 
hours ; which nearly corresponds with what 
we had been told in Salontca; whence the com- 
puted distance is two days and a half, or a jour- 
ney of thirty hours : but we had been only 
twelve hours upon the road from Salonka. The 
place where this dervSne occurs is called Khan 
Erenderi Bauz^, 
So many persons had visited Mount Athos, -V"""' 
that we gave up all thoughts of going to see 
the monasteries there : but we should not have 
formed this resolution at the time, if we had 
not fully believed that the valuable journals of 
Mr. TwEDDELL would have communicated to 
the world every information that was hoped 
for, respecting the libraries and other curiosities 
of that mountain. Mr. Charnaiid had given 
to us at Salonka an account of Mr. Tiveddelfs. if^^'l ^y 
l\lr. 2 wed- 
labours upon Mount Athos, and of the pre- '^^'^^ 
cious harvest he had reaped ; from which we 
supposed that even gleaning would be fruitless. 
(2) " The names of places in this f^art of our Journey be^an to be 
in Turkish: and having no good maps of the country, and the inha- 
bitants beinj for the most part Turks, we found it very difficult to 
obtain any information respecting our route." Cripps's 3fS. Journal. 
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