left, both at a diftance. Our courfe was 2om north of weft, and
in five hours we arrived the fecond time at Miletus.
O ur lodging at this place before had been a fmith’s Ihop, in
which we lay very roughly, ftraitened for room, and peftered
exceedingly with gnats and other infects. We had now no inclination
to refume i t ; but refolved, after refting awhile, to go
on to a village bearing north-eaft from Miletus, diftant three
hours, called Oranduick. We ferried over the Mseander in the
evening, and crofting the plain, were furrounded on the way by
vaft packs of jackalls, hunting in full cry. It was dark when
we arrived, and were admitted into a mud-built hut, in which.
Were feven or eight Turks.
Before we had been long at this place, we would gladly
have exchanged for the Ihop at Miletus with all its inconveniences.
The fconverfation, which paffed among the Turks, gave
room to apprehend bad purpofes, and our men in general were
very uneafy. It thundered and lightened exceedingly at a diftance
; but fleeping in the air by a fire, about which fome of
them were fitting, feemed to me preferable to heat and fufpefted
company within the hut. In a (hort time, after a dead filence,
the village-dogs began on a fudden to bark, the cattle to low as
i f in diftrefs, and the jackalls to howl; a violent ru(h of wind
had fcattered away the embers of the fire, with my bed-cloths,
and rain was falling heavily in large drops. A flafli of blue lightening
directed me to the hut, which in an inftant was crouded with
our men and baggage, and almoft as foon let in the wet on us.
This ftorm, however, had its ufe, as by afiembling us, it fruf-
trated any evil intentions of the Turks.
A f t e r a mod uncomfortable night, we mounted, at feven
in the morning, for Suki. Our courfe was nearly north by weft,
acpofs the middle of the plain. We left the rocks or knolls,
which we obferved in our way from Priene to the ferry, with
Ofebalha, upon the right hand, and pafled a wide water-courfe
twice.
twice. The foil was flimy and flippery, and our guide, who was
on a gray horfe,. like his rider, ftricken'in years, had a fall, but
was not hurt. We arrived at Suki after ten, fome indifpofed from
our late fufferings, and the janizary complaining of an old rupture.
We left the khan in the afternoon; our little Turk, whom
we had paid and difmifled, (landing in the road, and following us
with good wilhes, the effufions of his gratitude and regard. We
lay at Scala Nova, and the next night at Ofebanar beyond Aia-
faluck. We were on horfeback again before day-break, and reached
Smyrna in the evening.
I n traverfing the plain back to Suki, as above related, the*
water-courfe; which embarrafied us fo much in going to Miletus,
did not occur. The conclufion was obvious, that it had
been worn by torrents from mount Mycale. In this opinion I
was afterwards confirmed by a view of it from the precipice of
Priene. It is continued from the valley, where, coming from
Changlee, we obferved the banks fteep and torn, with corn (landing
on the brink. The bed approaching Suki, is wide and (hallow,
the ground being hard. It then cuts the plain with many
windings, its direction moft ftrait before Priene; and farther on,
erodes from near Mycale, 20” weft of fouth, its mazes very-
intricate; and unites with the Masander below Miletus, deepening
as it advances, and fwelled after heavy rains with rills from,
the (ides of the mountain;
W heler 1 and Spon are indebted for the account which they
have publilhed of this region to a journey begun in June, 1673,,
by Dr. Pickering and fome merchants of Smyrna. Thefe travellers,
quitting Changlee about four in the morning, gained the
top of Mycale, on which they had.an extenfive view, and one of
them defigned the mazes of the Mreander. They defeended by a
difticult and narrow track, and in two hours came into the plain,,
having left behind the remains o f a caftle eaftward. From Samj
P, 267,
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