V" 
Pivalis. 
206 FROM CONSTANTINOPLE, 
CHAP, inhabitants. It carries on commerce in wine 
and corn. 
Our journey (y^/>n7 3), from Bm/iik Tchekmadjeh 
to Selivria, was like travelling over the steppes of 
Russia. We set out at seven o'clock a.m. and 
observed some peasants coursing with grey- 
hounds. After riding for four hours, we came 
to a small village, called Pivatis, in the midst of 
this frightful waste'. Here the Turks halted 
for their dinner. We saw the remains of an 
old castle, and some columns, with large 
square blocks of stone. Thence following the 
shore of the Puopontis, upon an eminence 
before descending into Selivria, we noticed 
two large tuimili. The description given of 
these maritime towns of the Sea of Marmora 
by Le Bruyn, above a century ago, proves, that 
if they have undergone any alteration, it has 
not been that of improvement. They are little 
better than villages. Le Bruyn says', that "four 
(1) Written Bevados in Arrowsmith's Map. 
(2) " Car Selivrde, Bevados, Grand Pont, et S. Stephano, ne pour- 
roient pas faire toutes quatre une ville mediocre; et ces lieux, de m£me 
que le reste de la c6te de la Propontide, ne sont liabitez que par des 
Juifs, des Turcs, et des Grecs, Leur trafic, comme celui des autre*, 
ne eonsiste qu'en colons, en soyes, en laines, en fruits, en cuirs, en 
oyseaux, et en semblables marchandises." Voyage au Levant, par 
Corneille Le Bruyn, torn. 1. p. 217. ^ Rouen, \'i25. 
