70 FROM NEAPOLIS, 
CHAP, tombs of Turkish Saints, like the dwelling 
V , ^ \ J of one before noticed, were distinguished 
Tombs of g^(.]^ ^y a little red flao^, and a box to 
Turkish -' ° 
Saints. collect alms. But the most remarkable ap- 
pearance in this route, was the number of 
coemeteries, situate in desert places over which 
the road passes^ containing, severally, from 
three to four hundred graves, with grave-stones, 
and no village being near to them. The wells 
in Thrace differed from any we had ever 
National sceu. Thcrc is a kind of well which may 
Wells, . . . . "^ 
be considered as universal in Europe: it may 
be observed from the shores of the Icy Sea 
to the Mediterranean ; namely, that which 
exhibits the antient and simple mode of raising 
water by a huge lever, having at one end a 
counterpoise to the bucket, formed by fastening 
on large stones ': and this sort of ivell some- 
times appears in Thrace. But there is 
another, more common, and perhaps more 
antient : this consists of an arch, from which, 
by a covered flight of ten or fifteen steps, 
persons are conducted to the level where the 
water rises. The Turkish improvement of 
the fountain is also often seen : and as 
this plan is much to be preferred, both for its 
(l) See the Vignette to Chap. II. Vol. IX. of the Octavo Editioo 
of these Travels. 
