It was made the first capital of the Turkish empire by _Osmán_, or _Ottoman_, the founder of that monarchy. And it has the monument not only of the said _Ottoman_, but likewise of his immediate successors, _Orchán_, _Solymán_, _Amurát_, _Bagazet_, and _Mahomet_ the first. June xxi. This morning about eleven a clock I set forward on my journey, in company of a _caraván_ bound to several parts on the road to _Smyrna_. With these I now travel three hours, and then _conáck_ with them upon a convenient plat of grass, on the plains of _Prusia_. In the midway we cross the river _Hippius_ runing thro these plains into the _Sinus Cianus_. June xxii. We travel this day to the left of the _Palus Artynia_, which being fed from mount _Olympus_, extends itself the length of many miles, and shews several little islands, in which are one or two compact Greek towns. At length the lake vents itself by the chanel of the river _Rhyndacus_, at which we arrive about six a clock this evening, and passing it at a long wooden bridge, near the ruins of another built of stone, we take up our _conáck_ on the opposite bank, in a village now called _Ulubat_, but antiently _Apollonia ad Rhyndacum_. June xxiii. We ride eight hours, and then bait on the banks of a little river, which runs towards those called the _Adrastian plains_. Three hours farther, at the village of _Susegierlíck_ we cross the fair large and sandy chanel of the _Aesépus_, and proceeding still two hours more we at length _conáck_ upon the hills. June xxiv. We this day pass a street called the _Irongate_, and in seven hours arrive at the fair capacious _kane_ of _Mandahóra_, where are seven rude porphyry pillars thought to be of _Trojan_ original. Here we repose till towards evening, and then once more crossing the _Aesépus_, which rising in _Ida_ continues its course under the houses of this village, we proceed about an hour, and then lodge in a grassy plat about an hour to the left of _Balihísar_. June xxv. Rising now a little after midnight we proceed seven hours, and then resting in the woods till three in the afternoon, we pass by the usual _conáck_ of _Kurugelchíck_, and one hour and an half from thence at length lodge in a pleasant green spot of ground on the mountain _Temnus_. June xxvi. By four a clock we proceed, and having passed the _Temnus_, by seven a clock we cross the chanel of the _Caicus_, which here is but small, not being far distant from its fountain head. But an hour farther at _Gelemba_ we again observe it now much enlarged, and runing by the _kane_ and houses of that place, from whence it bends its course on the left hand to _Pergamus_. At this _kane_ we repose half an hour, and afterwards in the plains two or three hours more; but about midday we again remount, and in four hours cross the _Hyllus_, at a strait betwixt two hills; in an hour after which, in the midst of a fruitful and delicious plain, we arrive at _Thyatira_. June xxvii.