By nine this morning we transport ourselves and horses by boat from _Jerdáck_ to _Gallipoli_, and in three quarters of an hour arrive by God’s blessing on the European shore; where we bid a joyful farewel to that of Asia, after a severe sea sickness, which I endured in the passage. At which time three years and three months had passed, since my first arrival at _Smyrna_. _Callipolis_, now called _Gallipoli_, was taken by the Turks in the reign of _Orchán_, and _anno Hegirae_ 760. It is now a city considerably large, but thinly peopled, and decayed in commerce; tho it still plentifully enjoys that of cottons and aniseed. It stands upon a blunt point of land, betwixt two small open bays, of which that to the north is exceeding pleasant, and has on its green banks two fair Turkish sepulchers, the newer and more magnificent being that of _Sinán pashá_. Adjoining is a _kane_ of very gentile fashion, with a _mosque_, and other instances of charity. The southern bay has the walls of the antient arsenal, for the lodging of stores and galleys, which formerly wintered in this place. Besides which the vast rocks, which lie before the town, are very remarkable; being a strange but natural mixture of sand, pebbles, and cockleshells, of which materials all the houses of the town are built. Here I saw a stone figure of our _Savior’s_ baptism in the river _Jordan_, with another of the _B. Virgin_, carved contrary to the practice of the Greek church in _basso relievo_. February xxiii. We remain at _Gallipoli_ this and the following day, expecting Mr. Farington’s _caraván_. The breadth of the _Hellespont_ is here much inlarged, which at _Lampsacus_, according to _Xenophon_, was but fifteen furlongs[104]. February xxv. We set forward from _Gallipoli_ in a smooth and pleasant road, which by degrees ascending begins quickly to show us the narrow _isthmus_ of the _Chersonésus_, with the _Propontis_ on one side, and the gulph of _Cardia_, or _Sinus Melas_, on the other, the extreme neck of land being scarce three miles broad. Our road now inclines to the left hand, and so brings us round the blunt end of the gulph, into which flows the fair river _Melas_, which about the fourth hour from _Gallipoli_ we cross at a regular and well built stone bridge. Hence we have a stony and mountainous way to _Allalmalée_, a Christian village, where we _conáck_. Before bed time we had here the company of the poor ignorant παπᾶς, who among other things told us, that he lately gave the bishop of _Heracléa_ seventy dollars to ordain his son a priest. February xxvi.