II. 
— V 
72 FROM NEAPOLIS, 
CHAP. About half an hour before we entered the 
town, we saw a large tumulus. It will be 
necessary here to recapitulate preceding 
observations; because the geography of this 
country is so little known, that there is no 
notice taken in any modern map, either of 
the great plain we had passed, or of the 
remarkable range of high and bare mountains, 
extending east and west, at whose feet this 
plain lies. The mountains evidently constitute 
a part of the great chain of Rhodope: they 
now bear, as was before stated, the name of 
otTchoua- Karowlan ; and the plain is called Tchouagilarkir. 
giiarkir. jyj^jjy villagcs aud towns lie out of the road, 
upon the south side of the long Rhodopean 
chain. In fact, if we would seek for an 
Seres. " Hsec oppida locis paullo ante nominatis vicina sunt, ulterius 
in Graeciam de die scilicet in diem progredientibus e Thracia Turcis. 
Sunt enitn in fiiiibus Thracise Gumulzina et Marolia, non magno 
disjunctae intervallo. Gumulzina Castaldo in tabul4 Grascise 
recentiori Cumalza corrupt^ scripta legitur, pro Cumulza vel 
Gumuha, quara Turci Gumulz'inam vocaot. Marolia Graecis est 
Maronia, quae inter archiepiscojiatus refertur a Leone Augusto. 
Geographis nostris jam Marogna dicitur. Sita est ultra civitatem 
^NUM, de qu4 numero 32. diximus, qui itur in 'Ihessal[am e 
Thracia. Seres Graecis numero multitudinis Sf.rrs dicuntur, 
urbs satis Celebris, quam Leonis Augusti Novella refert inter 
metropoles. Prstor Graeciae noster baud procul a Clsio, de qui 
dictum numero 30, versus Maritzam, vel Hebrum flumen collocat.'' 
Chalcondyl. Hist, de Reh. Turcvc. p. 417. Paris, 1650. 
