water-fide is a large and good khan, at which we palled a
night on our return. This place belonged antiently to the
Ephefians, who exchanged it with the Samians for a town
in Caria.
W e lhall condudt the reader to the confines of Ionia with
Caria, by the rout we purfued in our firft journey, and then return
again to Scala Nova.
C H A P . XLI.
Continue our journey — Mount Mycale and Trogilium — A t Suit
-— Pajs Priene --- Perplexed in the plain.
W E arrived at Scala Nova from Aiafaluck at about eleven in
the morning, and drank coffee, while our men procured provi-
fions to carry with us. We mounted again at twenty minutes
after twelve, and leaving an aqusedudt, with a road leading toward
the fea, on our right hand, pafled over a broken caufey to
a village pleafantly fituated on a hill covered with vines, called
Cornea. We had frequent views of the coaft, and of the adjacent
illands. Twenty minutes after, we flopped at a fountain
of excellent water, by which is a coffee-houfe, with a lhady
tree, where we dined.
W e went on at half after three, and in ten minutes overlooked
a beautiful cultivated plain, lying low beneath us. Beyond it
was Mycale, a mountain, which has been delcribed as woody
and abounding in wild beafts; with the promontory, once called
Trogilium ', which, running out into the fea toward the north
end of Samos, and meeting the promontory Pofidium, makes a *
* Before Trogilium was an iflet of the fame name. Pliny reckons three Trogilia?,
Pftlon, The Haled-, Argennon, TheWhitt-, Sandalion, The Sandal. Seeachartin
Tournefert. .v. x.
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ftrait only feyen ftadia or a mile, wanting half a quarter, wide.
The city Samos was toward the fouth forty ftadia or five miles
from Trogilium, The paflage from Trogilium to Sunium in
Attica was fixteen hundred ftadia or two hundred miles.
W e met feveral firings o f flow, melancholy camels, and numerous
flocks of goats. The hills were covered with a Ihort
verdure from ike late rains. Before us were lofty mountains.
Entering within the range, we had Mycale on our right hand,
and on our left the termination of mount Paftyas, and of mount
Meflbgis ; the latter, which was once famous for wine, reaching
hither from Celan.® in Phrygia, bounding the plain on the north-
fide of the river Maumder. As we advanced, the paflage widened;
and we had on our right, a wa.ter-courfe. We difcnvered the
dome of a mofque, with a minaret and a cyprefs-tree or two before
us; and ten minutes after, came to Suki, a Turkilh village.
We were lodged in a mean Caravanfera, with mud walls.
In the morning it lightened and rained ; with awful thunder,
at intervals, on the mountain-tops, which were enveloped in
fleecy clouds. We left the village at feven, and travelled along
by the foot of Mycale, on the edge of a moft extenfive plain,
fkirted round with mountains. Mycale rofe very high on our
right hand, appearing as a Angle ridge, with many villages on its
fide. By the way were flowering Ibrubs, and we enjoyed the
fragrance and dewy frefhnefs of fpring in autumn. We came
in two hours and a half near Kelibelh, where our guide was be-
mired. From this place we afterwards examined the ruins of
Samfon-kaleli or Priene, which we now pafled at half an hour
after nine ; and at a quarter before eleven turned flanting over
the plain toward Palat or Miletus, which was in view. Behind
us was a village named Aurtborgus, bearing 15" eaft of north.
O ur guide had miftaken his way, and led us on too far by the
foot o f Mycale, This occafioned us much perplexity in the
plain, where in twenty five minutes we came to the wajer-courfe,
T which