208 FROM CONSTANTINOPLE, 
CHAP. Upon the fourth of jipril we left Selivria, at 
I. 
six A. M., passing over a bridge of thirty arches. 
At two hours' distance from the town, we 
quitted the maritime road; and taking our leave 
of the Propontis, turned off towards the north, 
viewing the same open campaign country as 
before, in which peasants were coursing among 
antient tumuli, as upon the preceding day, with 
greyhounds. We met a long retinue of horses, 
going for sale to Constantinople, tied by their 
.tails and heads, as in England. After travelling 
Kunnekiea. five hours, wc camc to a village called Kunneklea, 
where the Turks dined. The soil here consists 
of a sandy loam; but it is very rich. They 
employ fourteen oxen for a single plough: an 
English labourer would do equal work with half 
Tchuriu. that number. As we drew nigh to Tchorlu\ we 
began to observe a little wheat. We arrived at 
Tchorlu at two p. M., after a journey of eight 
hours, or twenty-four miles, meeting upon the 
road strong parties of suspicious looking men, 
all well armed. Here we saw the ruins of 
Turkish baths, a neat mosque, and a minaret. 
Turuiius. Tchorlu is the TuRULLus of antiquity; written 
Tzorolus by the Byzantine historians : it consists 
of nine hundred houses; and the town is paved 
(l^ Written Chiorlo in Jrrowsmith's Map. 
