TO THE COUNTRY OF THE CICONES. 83 
the -^GEAN, and of the islands Samothrace, chap. 
, . II. 
I M BROS, and Lemnos. Our whole day's journey >. ^, t 
was over a mountainous region. About one hour 
before we arrived at Fairy, a noble prospect 
was again displayed, of all the Gulph of 
^Nos, with Samothrace, and the more dis- 
tant islands of the ^Egean Sea. 
Fairy is situate upon the eastern side of the 
mountain Serrium, and at the western extremity 
of another plain, which begins after passing 
over this mountain ; the next in succession to 
that of Tchouagilarkir. It is distant eleven 
hours and a half from Tchafts-tcheyr, and within J^'"*"*"^ 
the antient territory of the Ci cones. As we Ckones. 
drew nigh to what had been the town only six 
days before, we perceived that the devastations 
made bv Ulysses in his march had been re- Appear- 
, ance of 
newed ; Fairy exhibited one wide heap of Fairy after 
. . its Confla- 
smoking ruins : — yet amidst these ruins we gration. 
were to seek for a night's lodging. We had 
been on horseback this day from one hour 
before sun-rise, until an hour after sun-set, 
when we rode into its deserted streets. On 
every side we saw nothing but the remains of 
houses consumed, and the terrible evidences of 
the sacking and burning of a town by a host 
of furious insurgents. The caravanserai alone 
remained standing; but in such a state of 
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