804 
CROSSES THE .AUSTRIAN FRONTIER. 
Hours. 
Brought over 16 
Vashny - - - 5 
Telejna - - - - 2 
Ousisisht - - - - 2 
Bordi - - — -2 
Yassy - - - 2 
Total 29 
February 17th. — Having dispatched my Janissary back to 
Constantinople, and taken leave of all the kind and splendid 
hospitalities of Yassy, I departed thence this morning at eight 
o’clock. The roads were now but thinly covered with snow ; 
yet sufficient remaining to form a track for my traineau, I pre¬ 
ferred that mode of travelling to any other. The face of the 
country, all the way to Potoshan, is hilly and open ; scarce a 
tree appearing amongst the numerous villages which tracked the 
high or low lands. At five o’clock we reached the town I have 
just Jiamed, a respectable looking place, consisting of about a 
thousand houses, with eight or ten religious edifices. The 
plague has so reduced its inhabitants, that hardly one-half 
of the original population remains. I took up my quarters 
for the night under the roof of Mr. Gorgiar, the Austrian 
r • • 
agent. 
February 18th. — At seven this morning I started again, and 
in six hours reached Marmonitza the last village in the Turkish 
territory, it being close to the Austrian barrier of Bucovina. 
Here my former passports were given up ; and after changing 
horses, I passed the boundary under an escort of two dragoons, 
glad to find myself again in Christendom. 
