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lug, the wind strengthening, the crew lowered all the sails, and 
lay to all night. In the morning, having again hoisted them, 
I found, at nine o’clock A. M. that we had left Marmora , a 
high mountain, far behind us. The Isle of Princes appeared, 
through a telescope, to consist wholly of limestone. I wished 
much to have visited the ruins of Cyzicum, but had no oppor¬ 
tunity. The small isthmus, near which they are situated, is 
said to have accumulated in consequence of the ruins of two 
ancient bridges, which formerly connected an island with the 
main land. Recently, above a thousand coins had been found 
on the site of Parium in Mysia, and sold by the peasants to the 
master of an English merchant vessel: I saw the greater part 
of them; they were much injured, and of no remote date, being 
all of bronze, and chiefly of the late emperors. Between Mar¬ 
mora and the Dardanelles, and nearer to the latter on the Eu¬ 
ropean side, appears a remarkable tumulous, on the top of a 
hill near the shore. The place is called Hexamil; and, ac¬ 
cording to the map of De L’lsle, was once the site of Lysima- 
chia. 
■oon showed itself in the building of many hundred vessels, belonging chiefly to the 
two barren islands of Spezzia and Hydra, situated on the eastern side of the Morea. 
Vessels are to be seen navigated by Greeks, carrying twenty-tvo guns: one of this 
size I met in the Archipelago, off Andros, in company with other smaller ships; all 
sailing before the wind, vvith large extended sails of white cotton, forming a beautiful 
appearance. The Greeks on board the Tricchiriote vessel were not very numerous. 
My fellow companions were three Turks: one was going to Eubcea; another to a vil¬ 
lage near Thermopylae; and the third was a Tartar, who profited by the northerly 
wind that was blowing, and was going to the Morea. At sun-set, the Greeks sat on 
the deck, round their supper of olives, anchovies, and biscuits, with wine; and in the 
cabin, a lamp was lighted to a tutelar saint, who -was to give us favourable weather. 
The wind that bore us along was from the X. E. to which as well as the East, the name 
of the' ievanier is given. This wind is generally very strong; and the epithet ap¬ 
plied by Virgil, 4 Violentlor Eurus, is strictly appropriate. After a little more than 
a dav’s sailing, we found ourselves opposite to a village on the European coast of the 
Sea of Marmora, called Peristasis. The distance from Constantinople we computed 
to be about forty leagues. I was informed that a Greek church at this place was dedi¬ 
cated to St. George. w This explains the reason why that part of the Propontis, which 
is now called the Bay and strait of Gallipoli, was formerly designated by the appella¬ 
tion of St. George’s Channel. At the distance of eighteen or twenty miles to the 
'■outh of Gallipoli, are the remains of a fort, Xoipi&xacrTpo (Pig’k-fort,) which a Turk¬ 
ish vessel, as it tacked near us, saluted; for here, it is said, the Turks first landed, when 
they came under Soliman into Europe. 
“ The ship anchored oif the castle of the Dardanelles, on the Asiatic side, accord¬ 
ing to the custom enforced by the Turks on all ships, excepting those of war, which 
pass southward. At this time, and ever since the Mamluks had shown dispositions 
hostile to the Ottoman government establised in Egypt, under Mahomed Ali, the ac¬ 
tual viceroy, all ships and vessels, particularly Greek, which might be supposed to be 
the means of conveying supplies of Circassians to the Mamluks, to increase their num¬ 
bers, were strietly searched. 
44 The population of the town, ClianaJc kalesi, on the Hellespont, where I landed, 
consists of Mahometans, Jews, and a few Greeks; amounting, in all, to about 3000. It 
derives its name from a manufactory of earthenware ; chanak signifying a plate or dish. 
The houses are mean, and built chiefly of wood. From this place I took a boat, and 
sailed down the Hellespont, to Koum-kale (the Sand castle,) situated between the 
mouth of the, Siipois and the Sigean promontory.’1 Walpole's MS. Journal . 
