We begin to bend our course more directly towards the _Hellespont_, and in order thereto proceed over a tract of gentle mountains, which _Homer_ calls πόδα νείατον Ἴδης[99]; now frequented with wild beasts, but pleasant for the prospect they afford us on our right hand, whilst we pursue with our eye the whole course of the _Aesépus_ almost as far as _Mihalíck_, where it enters the sea. In three hours we pass by an old village and adjoining castle called _Minyás_, which name it likewise lends to the neighbouring plain and lake; the former of which I take to have been antiently called the plains of _Zelia_, and the latter the λίμνη Δασκυλίτις[100]. Not far from hence flows a river by the modern name of _Mulvetelée_, passing into the adjoining lake; after which are small hills and pleasant villages, till in five hours we descend into the plains of _Zelia_, which are pleasant, fertile, and well cultivated. Here we pass thro large fields of wallnut trees, which bring us in five hours and a half to the banks of a fair and broad river; which I take to be the _Tarsius_ of the antients, and by the Turks is now vulgarly called _Tarza_. We were here obliged to ferry over with our horses three together in a boat, the stream being not securely fordable. In one hour and half from thence, thro a level and verdant campain to the left of the above mentioned lake, we come to _Humumlée_, and there _conáck_. The lake we leisurely viewed from our _conáck_, and could compute it to be about thirty miles in circumference, being always full of water, and stored with plenty of fish, among which it then furnished us with delicious pikes. We were here informed, that the river, we lately passed, empties it self into this lake, from whence by a new chanel it takes its course to _Mihalíck_, where together with the _Aesépus_ it soon after falls into the sea. And directly beyond this lake we then beheld the fair exalted hills of _Cyzicus_, and the _Peninsula Cyzicena_. February xix. By six this morning we leave _Humumlée_, where we had been lodged not inconveniently in a farmer’s house, and riding thro a continued campain begin to view the snowy head of _Ida_. But in some time we again lose sight of it, and in five hours from our setting out approach to _Bozacgée_, seated in the _Adrastian_ plains[101]; and at the same place to a large and fair river, by the Turks named _Bocléw_[102], which we leave on our left hand, till in two hours we cross it by a dangerous wooden bridge near _Sorrícui_[103], and there _conáck_. February xx.