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yard, where we now found the owner, a man with a venerable
beard. We converfed with him, our Jew lerving us as an interpreter.
He was a ftone-cutter, and fhowed us a peftle and
mortar, as fpecimens of his abilities j with a mutilated head of
a female ftatue 5 a piece of load-ftone; and a parcel of medals,
among which was a fmall Trajan, with a horfe feeding on the
reverfe, and the legend c o l . a v g . on the exergue t r . a
or Colonia Augujia froas. He had alfo the Hone of a ring, of a
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red colour, infcribed m h t p i o f Demetrius; and a brown one,
or
with a lion tearing a bull.
Both our Jew and janizary had exprelTed more than once
a diffidence of our fafety. Our fire-arms had been all regularly
infpedted; and this evening in particular our men betrayed plain
lymptoms of uneafinefs and apprehenfion, which we imputed to
fome intelligence of banditti not remote from us, given them
by our new companipn.
C H A P . XI.
Invited to Cbemali— We fe t out on foot —-The hot-baths — Arrive
at Cbemali — Remains o f antiquity —- Once Colonce.
WHEN we lay by the fea-fide, we had obferved a fire blazing
on an eminence before us, or toward Ledtos. We were told,
it was a fignal for a boat defigned to be laden clandeftinely with
corn, the exportation of which is prohibited under fevere penalties.
One of the men had approached and viewed us with a
degree of attention, which we difliked j the people of this dif-
tridt bearing a very bad charadter. At midnight the Aga of
Chemali, who was concerned in this contraband bufinefs, had
come prancing along the fhore with two Turks, armed, on longtailed
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tailed horfes, to enquire who we were. The janizary entertained
him apart by the fire with a pipe and coffee, after which he
mounted and galloped back, leaving us an invitation to fee an
old building at his village. Our hoft informed us, that by the way
were hot baths worthy our notice, and that Chemali was diftant
about two hours north-eaftward. This mode of computing by
time prevails univerfally in thefe countries, and is taken from
the caravans, which move an uniform pace, about three or four
miles in an hour.
I n the morning, after breakfafting on grapes, figs, white honey
in the comb, and coffee, we fet out in a body for the village, a
Turk or two remaining with the boat, and our janizary, whofe
right eye was inflamed, at the vineyard. We entered a narrow
track worn by camels, the fand deep and loofe j and faw feveral
of thefe animals fingle, lying down, feeding with their burthens
on their backs, or moving penfively in a long train, the leader
mounted on a low afs : and alfo a flock of goats, and a few ffieep
and oxen. We came to a river, which winds from the valley
behind Troas, and has been mentioned before. The ftream here
was now fhallow, but abounded in fmall fiffi. It had overflowed
nearer the fea, and formed a little marffi.
T he hot fpring rifes in the Hope of the hill of Troas, about
four miles from the Ihore j its Bearing 30” . fouth of weft.
The bed refembles rufty iron in colour, and the edges were in-
crufted with white fait. After running a few paces, it enters a
bafin, about nine feet fquare, within a mean hovel roofed with
boughs. This is the bath appropriated to women. In a gully
there, Farenheit’s thermometer rofe to 113. The current pafs-
ing from hence unfeen is admitted by channels into another bafin.
In this the thermometer rofe to n o ; and in two fmall
veins to 130 and 142. It was before in the air and ffiade at 82.
The water has the colour of whey; the tafte is brackiffi; and
this quality it communicates to the river below. We fuppofed
it to be ftrongly impregnated by iron-ore. One of the bafins
E was