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to Chiflik is fifteen miles: the road leading through one of the most 
beautiful and happy looking vallies that I ever saw. A stream, swoln 
when we saw it by the rains, runs through it, and on each side spreads a 
more abundant vegetation. 
On quitting the valley we came on the plain in which Chiflik lies, so 
well cultivated that it quite transported me into some of the best parts 
of England. The peasants were ploughing the ground, while immense 
flocks of sheep, goats, and oxen were spread over the whole country. 
The fields were parted off by hedges and ditches; the road was well 
defined; and pretty villages rose here and there, intermixed with the 
most luxuriant verdure. Spring was here in its bloom, and the whole 
plain was a little Eden. 
At about six hours from Kara Colagh , the road leads N. to the dis¬ 
trict of Bybourg or Baibort, whilst our road led us W. 
The village of Chflick is interspersed with poplars and willows; the 
out-houses for cattle were built of rafters laid horizontally, and covered 
with a roof of earth. A Musselim resides here under the government 
of Arz-roum. 
26th. From Chiflik we went to Caraja , distant twenty miles (six 
hours) on a bearing of W. We continued through the plain, which we 
had entered on the preceding day; and found it to its close as beauti¬ 
ful as in its commencement. The stream which we had admired in the 
valley of Sadac , issues into the plain and follows the road. We crossed 
it over a wooden bridge. It supplies the inhabitants of the neighbour¬ 
hood plentifully with fish, of which indeed we had a specimen in some 
excellent trout, served up to us for breakfast. 
We passed the village of Ger , and on the Eastward of the plain we 
saw the village of Kizziljay. The whole country around was enlivened 
by people employed in the works of agriculture. On entering the hills 
we found their declivities on all sides beautifully wooded with firs, pine, 
oak bushes, and a variety of thorns, with every shrub common to a 
Northern climate. All the mountains which we had passed were of 
easy access, and of no difficult ascent or descent. About twelve miles 
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