60 FROM NEAPOLIS, 
CHAP, half from Charpantu, we crossed the rapid 
V . '^ J torrent of the Karasu river, by a ferry of 
flat-bottomed barges. It was much swoln, 
owing to the late rains : the turbid water 
looked like a tide of liquid mud. This river 
Ne'st'us heing the Nestus of the Antients, we inquired 
diligently after the ruins of Abdera, situate 
upon the eastern side of its embouchure '; but 
could gain no intelligence of this most powerful 
city of all The ACE % the fair colony of the Teii', 
famous for its Epicurean philosopher, Democritus*. 
To the north-ivest, at the base of a high mountain, 
we saw a town called Kaiahunar, in a beautiful 
situation : above it, upon the summit, is the 
residence of a Turlmh saint. Afterwards, we 
overtook a large caravan of tobacco : it was con- 
veyed in twenty or thirty waggons, drawn by 
buffaloes, and going to Constantinople. At sun- 
Yeniga. gg^ ^g arrlvcd at Yen'iga : here we found the 
(l)"Or/ U'lrk rh* tJiirircv taraf/.oo T^cg onaToXat," Apihti^ce, ?roA;; IvuvufAti 
fil^^ev, ov 01 rou ^lefi^^ovi 'i'3'tTei ifwyon. Excerpta ex Libri Sept. 
fine Strabon. Geog. p. ^182. ed. Oxon. 
(2) Mjr« at ravra. T'Kiuira.s ii; ' A^on^a, ^^offiyayiro ^oXiy It Tail Jt/»«- 
VMrdrais aZercv rort ruv Iti 0jat«>jj, Diodor, Sicul. BibliotLec. Hist, 
lib. xiii. cap. 72. vol. V. p. 353. ed. Wesscling. Argentor. An 7. 
(3) "A/iSjjja Ka,>.i) In'iui i'lrciKia. 
(4) 'Ex. ruvrns ya^ xai Aiifiox^iros Ifriv o ipiXofe^o;. Stephan. de 
Urbib. &c. p. 5. eA. Gronov. Amsl.1678. 
