TO CONSTANTINOPLE. 1 1 1 
wards to Ma/^ara, three hours farther towards chap. 
the east ; journeying over a hilly country, and a v , — ' 
stony road. The mosques were in ruins, and "S"''"- 
the land desolated. At Malgara, however, we 
were surprised by the sight of fine white bread. 
In the street of this place we saw the fragments 
of a beautiful Twar/j/e cornice. Thence we pro- 
ceeded five hours farther, to a place called 
Develi, or Devili; passing over the most bleak ^''i'-''- 
and solitary plains imaginable. This part of 
Thrace resembles the steppes in the South of 
Russia; and to add to the similitude of the two 
countries, there are here tumuli precisely similar 
to those of Tahtary. Just before we descended 
from a ridge of hills (which separated two of 
these extensive plains) into Develi, there were 
two such mounds, equal in size to any we had 
seen in Kuban Tahtary. Upon the top of this 
ridge there is an elevated plain ; and upon one 
side of it, one of the two tumuli, commanding a 
view westward of all the level country towards 
Kishan and the Plain of the Hehrus. The other 
tumulus, standing upon the other side of the 
same elevated plain, that is to say, upon the 
brow of the descent towards Develi, commands 
all the region eastward ; so that almost the whole 
of Thrace is here visible ; and a more dreary 
prospect can hardly be conceived : it afforded 
