W e rode on to Segigeck, which was before us, by the head
o f a fhining bay, and arrived after three hours. We were
civilly received by a party of men and boys, who were gathered
about the gate on our approach, and directed to the interior for-
trefs, which was much out of repair. Here we were lodged in
an apartment over the gate-way, belonging to the aga or governor,
who was abfent on a vilit of ceremony to a fuperior
officer, attended by moft of the garrifon. Our horfes, fervants,
and baggage were difpofed in the area or court below.
Se g ig e c k was antiently called Gera, and was the port of
the city Teos toward the north. It was peopled with Chalci-
denfians, who had arrived under Geres. In the wall of the fortification
next the fea are feveral infcribed marbles, the colour a
blue-gray, which have been tranfported from Teos. One is
fixed in a fountain without the fouth gate. In the hot bath are
two large fragments placed upfide down, and ferving for feats,
which I examined, but haftily, fearing fome infedtion, as the
plague was known to be -near. All thefe have been published by
the learned Chifhull. By a mofque and in the burying-grounds
are fome fcattered fragments, and a fepulchral infcription or two.
This place is reckoned eight hours from Smyrna.
T he cranes were now arrived at their refpedtive quarters, and
a couple had made their neft, which is bigger in circumference
than a bufhel, on a dome clofe by our chamber. This pair
Hood, fide by fide, with great gravity, fhewing no concern at
what was tranfadling beneath them, but at intervals twilling,
about their long necks, and clattering with their beaks turned
behind them upon their backs, as it were in concert. This was
continued the whole night. An owl, a bird alfo unmolefled,
was perched hard by, and as frequently hooted. The crane is
tall, like a heron, but much larger; the body white, with
black pinions, the neck and legs very long, the head fmall, and
the bill thick. The Turks call it friend and brother, believing
it
it has an afFedtion for their nation, and will accompany them
into the countries they fhall conquer. In the courfe of our
journey we faw one hopping on a wall with a Angle leg, the
maimed flump wrapped in linen.
C H A P . XXVII.
Situation o f Teos — Remains — The port, &c. — The temple of
Bacchus — Teos deferted — A Venetian vejfel.
SE GIGE C K Hands on the north-fide of the Ifthmus of a
fmall rough peninfula, which extends weflward, and terminates
in a fharp low point. This perhaps was the cape once called
Macna, by which were the baths of the Teians, fome on the
lhore in a cavity of the rock or natural, and fome made by art
and from oftentation. Teos was thirty ftadia or three miles and
three quarters from Gera, and fronted the fea on the fouth-fide
I f was equidifiant from Erythra and Chios, fixty one miles and
a half from each by the coaft.
I n the morning we croffed the Ifthmus to Teos, now called
Bodrun. We found this city almoft as defolate as Erythra and
. a^omene* The walls, as we guefled, were about five miles
m circuit. Without them, by the way, are vaults of fepulchres
Hripped of their marble, as it were forerunners of more indiftindl
ruin.. Inftead of the llately piles, which once impreffed ideas
of opulence and grandeur, we faw a marfh, a field of barley in
ear, buffaloes ploughing heavily by defaced heaps and proftrate
e ifices, high trees fupporting aged vines, and fences of Hones
and rubbifh, with illegible infcriptions, and time-worn fragments.
, It was with difficulty we difcovered the temple of Bac-
dhus, but a theatre in the fide of the hill is more confpicuous;
The vault only, on which the feats ranged, remains, with two
broken pedeflals. in the area.. It fronted 15m. wefi of fouth.
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