TO THE PASSAGE OF MOUNT H^EMUS. 219 
We left Beymilico at six the next morning, chap. 
{Friday, jipril g); and after a ride of five hours, v my , / 
principally over plains covered with under- 
wood, we arrived at the town of Carnahat. Camabat. 
Throughout all this country, greyhounds are 
used; and we frequently observed persons 
coursing. After passing over a hill, like the 
Sussex South-Downs, we beheld the town ; 
making a neat and pleasing appearance with its 
white minarets. We descended into Carnahat 
with the whole cavalcade of the Embassy, 
altogether amounting to above a hundred horse- 
men, besides sumpter-horses, four baggage- 
waggons, and the Ambassador's arabah. Here 
we found a clean and excellent public bath, not 
inferior to any in Constantinople; and plenty of 
good wine, limpid and colourless as water, 
tasting like cider. Carnahat contains seven hun- 
dred houses, whereof two hundred belong to 
Greeks. The country near it is well cultivated ; 
and its situation, in a plain at the foot of a ridge 
of hills, is very agreeable. Whether owing to its 
want of commerce, or to what other cause, we 
did not learn, Carnahat had hitherto escaped the 
ravages of the robbers ; who had collected in 
sufficient force to attack towns of equal size. 
One class of its inhabitants might be considered 
as emblems of its uninterrupted tranquillity ; 
