III. 
S)4 FROM THE COUNTRY OF THE CICONES, 
Thracian and Trojan Barrows — Eski Eregli — Situation 
of Perinthus — Heraclea — Inscription — Macrontichos — 
Curious anecdote of a Swallow — Selymbria — Roman 
•marks of distance — Crevitis — Buy^k Tchekmadji — 
Kutch^k Tchekmadji — Arrival at Constantinople — 
Behaviour of the Populace — Soros of Atracian Marhle 
— P^ra. 
CHAP. i\EJOiciNG in our escape from Fairy, we 
made good speed across the plain, and reached 
the banks of the Maritza river in three quarters 
of an hour, which is counted an hour's distance 
from the town. This river is the Hebrus of 
Scylax' and Herodotus'". We found it to be 
much swoln, broad, and muddy ^ Our passage 
(1 ) In the original text oiScylax, the reading is, ■roraf/.c; Af/^ifxet, 'Aajia^as, 
xa) iv auTou nl^os, Aims "^iXi; xa) kiftvriv, nl^n A."vtu* h rn &^a.x>i ; but 
Vos.iius says, " Dorisci fluminis mentio apud neminem, quod sciam, est. 
PutO itaque sic scribendum hunc locum : nora/^is "E/S^o?, xa.) W ahroZ 
ho^laxoi rtip^es'" Scylac. Caryandem. Peripl. p. 65. edi. Gronovii, 
L.Bat. 1697. 
(2) Vide iferoc/ofMwi, lib. iv. c. 90. p. 251 ; et lib. vii. c. 59- p. 402. 
ei. Gronovii, L.Bat. 1116. 
(3) The following passage occurs in Leunclavius, respecting ilie Maritza : 
" Sed Prator, pauUo post, haec de Maritza subjicit: Alii sedes con- 
stituebant versus inferiores partes, et eum fluvium quern lingua vulgaris, 
ut antea dictum est, Maritzam vocat. Reapse quidem is ITebrus est, qui 
versus .SiNiTM oppidum excurrens, ibidem in ^gjeum se pilagus efFundit. 
Sed quia cum hoc et alii se conjungunt amnes, ac majorem efficiunt: 
iccirco nomen etiam apud accolas mutat. Flumina vero quaj Prastor ab 
Hebro sive Maritza recipi commemorat, alia non est nt.esse recenseri, 
quod Turcicis nostris illustrandis non serviant." He mentions, how- 
ever, two ; the Harda and the Tunsa ,- which, he says, Chalcondyles 
often calls T<2narus ,- perhaps the TjEkViVS of Herodotus, Vide Chalcon- 
dylem. Hist, de Reb. Turcic. p. 413. Paris, 1650. 
