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where we landed, is czWed Giurdzgio^: it enjoys chap. 
a considerable commerce, and its shops are ^ 
well supplied with wares. What with the con- ^""■'^•a"'- 
fusion of horses and carriages for so large a 
party, the breaking of ropes and harness, and 
the total want of equipage in some instances, it 
was some time before the Embassy was again 
progressive. Some of the Turks had never ^^"^e"^ 
been seated before in any wheeled vehicle ; and of traT»i. 
ling. 
as the coaches began to move, they thrust 
their bearded heads through the windows, exhi- 
biting the most pitiable looks imaginable. To 
us the change was hardly less remarkable; a 
year and a half having elapsed since we left 
Russia ; during all which time we had been em- 
ployed in travelling, without being once accom* 
modated with any wheeled carriage. We could 
not boast, however, of much luxury in the 
alteration; the whole country upon the northern 
side of the river, owing to the heavy rains, 
being in a state of inundation, and the road 
deep in mud. During two hours, we were 
dragged over a level plain; but we found 
the floods, in some parts of it^ so high, that 
(l) Written Giurdcsov in Arrowstnith'a Map of the Environs of 
Constantinople ; and Giurgevo, in that of Caetan Paima, printed at 
Trititt in 1811. The pronunciation of this word is nearly Yergioa. 
