Saint. 
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CHAP, for sale. There was a good supply of corn and 
. of garden vegetables; also a great quantity of 
timber, in planks, ready for building, brought 
by peasants from the mountains. Four-wheeled 
waggons are very generally used here; but 
they are slightly constructed, and ill calculated 
for the bad roads about Yen'iga. 
About an hour's distance from the town, we 
ruri-usk came to the dwelling of a Turkish saint. He 
lived in a little stone building, near the road, 
which had more the appearance of a small 
antient temple than of a modern structure. 
Opposite to the door was a red flag; and below 
it, a box to receive paras, as pious donations 
from passengers. These saints in Turkey are 
either persons bereft of reason, or who affect 
to be so ; and they are very much revered. 
The same flat and swampy plain appeared to 
the east of Yeiiiga that we had seen before we 
reached it; and the same ridge of high moun- 
tains throughout its whole length upon our left, 
extending east and ivest. This plain is two or 
three days' journey in length ; and, like the 
rest of Theace, it exhibits little worthy of 
observation. The sea enters into it by a nar- 
row mouth, and forms a wide salt-water lake. 
We came to the edge of this lake at two hours' 
