We depart from _Allalmalée_, and in two hours and a half arrive at _Malgara_, where I observed a Turkish drink called _bozók_, being a whitish thick beer made of millet seed. This is a large and pleasant town, abounding in the production of honey, and bears the name of a lady, who redeemed its security from plunder for a vast sum of money, from the first Turkish conqueror. It is now reserved as a place of banishment for the prime ministers of the empire. We proceed homeward till about the sixth hour of this day’s journey, when having lost my watch the preceding evening, we searched the company upon some suspicion we had entertained of a _catergée_, who yesterday joined us; and accordingly we find it concealed in the corner of his breeches. In ten hours we arrive at _Derrícui_ a small Christian village, and there _conáck_. I must not omit, that this day we discovered to the left the mountains of _Samothrace_, the course of the _Hebrus_, and more forward the snowy top of _Rodope_. February xxvii. In two hours from our _conáck_ we arrive at _Uzunkuprée_, a town which has its name from the fair adjoining bridge of an hundred and sixty six arches, and by _Saidino_ is called _Ponte d’Erchiene_[105]. We were the full space of fifteen minutes in passing this bridge, and towards the further end, which is the most conspicuous part, we observed ten or twelve heads carved on the battlements, that enclose the bridge, in memory, as it is said, of so many chief workmen strangled by _Sultan Morát_ the first (who founded it) for building it so narrow, as not to admit of two carts at once. In two hours farther we arrive at the sandy and delicious banks of _Hebrus_, just opposite to the city and castle of _Dimotico_, where _Sultan Morát_ began to seat the palace of his emperial residence. From hence we pass along the bank of that slow, but then plentiful river[106], and after two hours and a half take up our lodgings in a cold inconvenient hovel at _Elchilée_. February xxviii. By five this morning we proceed in a level sandy road on the banks of the _Hebrus_, where we observe a vast quantity of wild fowl, and by nine arrive at the palace of my Lord Paget in _Adrianople_, being filled with admiration at the beauty of the river, campain, and prospect of so fair a city.