By six we leave _Sorrícui_, and proceed a little way, where a fair is held at _St. Georgetide_, which continues for the space of ten days, and is much frequented. We then mount a high and steep hill, which bears a stately and extended wood of oak; the lower shrubs of which produce a quantity of galls, and at the roots of these the ground is overspread with an excellent and well scented sage. On the top of this hill in three hours we have a near prospect of the sea, and isle of _Marmora_, with one side of the _Peninsula_ of _Cyzicus_. By the fifth hour we begin to descend on the other side into a pleasant and green plain, and by the seventh arrive at _Dimotico_, a market town, vulgarly so called from the corruption, as I suppose, of the antient _Didymotichos_. At this place occurs a moderate river with a wooden bridge; and an hour beyond the town a large one with a fair bridge of stone, built by the munificence of _Sultan Mahomet_ the fourth. Here are to be observed the marks of a royal way, denoted by two equal and regular barrows on each side, by which lies the _Grand Signior’s_ road to the wars. Hitherto our way had all along surrounded mount _Ida_, which often favoured us with the sight of its hoary head, and many rivers flowing from its watry bowels. We had now an hour farther to reach our _conáck_ at _Pismetlée_; but losing our way, we were conducted by a cowherd (who was cudgel’d into this civility by _Mustaphá bey_) to a small pleasant village an hour farther in our journey, where being obliged to force our reception, we were thereupon lodged in the _mosque_ of the place. This will appear an instance very singular in Turkey, and was looked upon as an abomination by the _imám_ of the parish; who could not enter that place of his worship on the following morning, without saluting us three times with _Stifer Alláh_, that is, _God forbid_. February xxi. In an hard road betwixt barren hills we travel this day towards _Jerdáck_, a village which is the _scale_ for passing the _Hellespont_, seated within half an hour of the antient _Lampsacus_. This road led us within four hours to the shore of the _Propontis_, along which we proceed four hours farther to our _conáck_, where the sea contracts it self into that strait chanel, betwixt _Lampsacus_ and _Callipolis_. Here we find a large _kane_, in which are about twelve antient marble pillars, each of one fair intire stone, some round, others chanel’d, and of various orders; all which I conclude to have been undoubted reliques of the antient _Lampsacus_. In the yard of the _mosque_ at _Jerdáck_ I took the two following Greek inscriptions ΑΓΑΘΗ ΤΥΧΗ ΤΙ. ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΝ ΦΛΩΡΟΝ ΠΥΚΤΗΝ ΝΕΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΑ ΕΝΔΟΞΩΣ ΠΑΙΔΩΝ ΑΓΩΝΑ ΤΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΩΝ ΤΥΧΕΙΩΝ ΑΓΩΝΟΘΕΤΟΥΝ- ΤΟΣ Γ. ΙΟΥΛ. ΕΛΕΩΝΕΩΣ ΥΠΟ ΠΑΙΔΟΤΡΙΒΗΝ ΚΛΑΥΔ. ΚΥΡΟΣ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ ΤΗΝ ΤΑΦΗΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΝ ΕΝΑΓΙΣΜΟΝ ΤΩ ΠΑΤΡΙ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΩ ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ February xxii.