By break of day we set forward, and in one hour’s travel begin to mount the foot of _Temnus_, a low but large and difficult mountain, and at the same place cross the first branch of the _Caicus_, not far from its fountain. We pass the rest of this day thro a stony road on the _Temnus_, and upon the same mountain six hours from our _conáck_ lodge at the unpleasant _Kurugelchíck_; where we were joined by two Turks, _Mustaphá_ and _Chalíl_, who accompanied us to _Adrianople_. February xvi. We travel still over the _Temnus_, and on our right hand discover a large open vale on the top of the mountain, rich and well cultivated. In somewhat more than six hours we had passed the _Temnus_, and enter into a rich plain extended all along the backside of _Ida_, now _Cordág_; at the foot of which, about four miles distant from the road we descry the agreable seat of _Balihísar_. From this side of _Ida_ thro a rich and fertile campain flows the river _Aesépus_, now called _Simow_ by the Turks, which we cross by an old bridge at the village of _Mandahóra_, and there take our _conáck_ in a large and convenient _kane_; which is more to be noted for its seven large pillars of course porphyry, now employed to support the roof of this barbarous edifice, but might possibly once stand in some fabric of antient _Troy_, from whence _Mandahóra_ is distant about ten hours. February xvii. By eight a clock we set forward from _Mandahóra_, leaving the _Aesépus_ to surround those hills on our right hand, whilst we proceed a shorter way, over small hills and dales, to meet it again in six hours and a half at _Susegierlíck_, where we were entertained in the public _kane_ with excellent pike taken in that river. February xviii.