people, feeds all the fountains about the country ; and to. the
fouth of the lake is a hollow ground, where are near twenty
large pieces of gray marble, each cut out into feveral fteps, of
a fize which would be very difficult to move. On one he law
infcribed, L O C O IIII.
Se v r i -h is sa r is an extenfive town, and may be deemed the
Vourla of the Teiansj but the Greeks, though numerous, have
no church. We were lodged in a wretched mud-built khan,
by which is a lively brook, running weft-north-weflward. A
Hone bridge has been eroded over it, and feveral piers remain.
We had eroded it more than once on the way from Segigeck.
We had here reafon to diflike, and to be alarmed, at the carriage
of fome of our Turkilh vifitants, but the Janizary was our
fafe-guard.
M a n y fcattered remnants of the antient city occur at Sevri—
hilfar. One fixed in the wall of a houfe mentions the two focieties,
the Panathenai-fts and the Dionyfiafts. At the time of the Ionic
migration a colony of Athenians took poffeffion of Teos. Thefe
appear to have introduced the Panathenaaa, the grand feftival of
their parent city. A crown of olive1 encircles the name of the.
community, which had the care of its celebration ; and one of
ivy that of the Dionyfiafts, who were artificers, or contradlors for
the Afiatic theatres, incorporated and fettled at Teos under the:
kings of Pergamum. I copied a long decree made by one of
their companies in honour of its magiftrates. The flab was,
placed as a grave-ftone in a Turkiffi burying-ground, where the.
man, who ffiewed it me, with fome affiftance, laid it flat, and
a heavy ffiower falling rendered the charadters, which are large
and uninjured, eafily legible. The thanks of the community,
with a crown of olive, are given as a recompenfe for their great
liberality and trouble in office; and to perpetuate their memory
and excite an emulation of their merit, it is befides enadled, that
the decrees be engraved at their expenfe: fo defirable was this ,
teftimony to the individuals, and fo frugal the ufage in bellowing
ing it. The Dionyfiafts proving turbulent and feditious were
expelled Teos. They removed to Ephefus, and from thence
were tranflated by King Attalus to Myonnefus.
CHAP. XXIX.
Arrive at Hypfile-— The Myonnefus— Hypfle a frong-hold.
T H E next day in the afternoon, the weather proving fair,
we continued our journey fouthward > and, foon after letting
out, had a low mountain on our left hand, with an opening in
it, and a wide but dry water-courfe, which we crofled, and
then palled over hills and dales by fmall inclofures regularly
planted with oaks, many of which fupported vines, and between
the rows was barley in ear and other grain. The vala-
nea or large acorns produced by thefe trees are exported, chiefly
to Italy, where the tanners ufe them inftead of bark. Coming,
to the Ihore, we turned a little to the left, and afeended a very
lofty hill, commanding a moft extenfive view of a picturefque
country, of the fea-coaft, and illands. Near the top is a fountain,
and over it a ftone, on which is cut the Greek crofs. We
alighted after a pleafant ride of three hours at Hypfile, and were
very well lodged in a large apartment, in a houfe belonging to at
Turk of Sevri-hiflar.
W e are now on the Promontory, antlently called Myonnefus r„
between Teos and Lebedus. The fummit has been deferibed as
conical, and Handing on an ample bafe. It was acceffible from
the continent by a narrow track only, and was terminated toward
the lea by wave-worn rocks, hanging over, and in lome places
projedting beyond the veflels, to which it furnilhed a fafe ftation,
below. The Myonnefus was the property of the Teians.
Mcwrtain*’J^nville's cllartJ PjiS-hurtm, corruptly for Hyp/Msums, The high
H yesile