TO THE COUNTRY OF THE CICONES. 73 
accurate description of this part of Thrace, chap. 
it is only to be found in Herodotus ; and upon '■ y ' 
this account, the best map of the country- 
is that which was published by De Lisle\ 
because it was adapted to the text of the 
historian. Herodotus, relating the march of 
Xerxes towards Greece, enumerates with great 
fidelity all the principal objects ^ 
It was at Gymmergine that we received the 
first authentic intelligence of the disastrous 
state of the country towards the east; and we 
heard the news that Fairy, a town through 
which it would be necessary to pass, in our 
way to Constantinople, had been taken by the 
rebels, and was now in their hands ; its former 
inhabitants having fled to Mary, the antient 
Maronea. We found, however, from the 
arrival of Tahtar couriers, that the road was 
considered as being open ; the rebels in possession 
of Fairy having given notice that travellers 
might pass unmolested. 
Gymmerg'ine contains one thousand houses : gi^e. 
(1) Grcecim Pars Seplentriuualis, Auctore Gulielmo De Lisle. Paris, 
1708. 
(2) 36g|»jj Ss ijc rou i^o^'ifKou i^o^iutn It) rht 'EA.A,«Sa, *. r. X. Herodoti 
Hist. lib. vii. c. 108. p. 411. ed, Gronovii. 
