This morning the Prince gave his Excellency another visit, which he returned in the afternoon, and at the same time took leave, with a deep sense of the generous, honourable, and affectionate treatment he had received in this court. After his return from the Prince, he received a visit of leave from _Constantinus Cantacuzenus Stolnichus_, who then presented him with a gentile horse of the Valachian breed, and at the same time two of the same breed and quality were sent him from the Prince, upon which his Excellency answered the present of _Constantinus_ with a diamond ring, valued at three hundred pounds. The same day I was favoured with a present of several Greek books, lately printed in this province, from Κῦρ Γεώργιος Καστριώτης; as likewise of some others from his Excellency _Constantinus Cantacuzenus_. Towards the evening our curiosity led us half an hour out of town to visit a convent, called in the Valachian tongue the _Catrochán_, and founded by the late Prince _Serbanus Cantacuzenus_. It is accounted the most beautiful of several in this province, founded by the present and preceding princes; and therefore a short account of this may serve for a specimen of the rest. It is situated on the _Dembowitza_, which washes it on two sides; while the other two are adorned with a grove of lovely, close, and shady oaks. The neighbouring pastures afford an entertaining prospect, whereas the parts nearer to the convent are disposed into orderly vineyards, and gardens. The fabric it self is an oblong quadrangle, built of regular and massy stone, divided into cells for about forty monks, with lodgings for the abbot, a common refectory, kitchin, and other public apartments. But in the middle of the area is erected the chapel, of the exact figure of the antient Greek churches, that is, distinguished into the νάρθηξ or _porch_, πρόναος or _outward chapel_, νάος or _body of the church_, βῆμα or _chancel_, and θυσιαστήριον or _altar_; the several parts being regular and stately, supported with pillars, and covered with high cupolas. The ornaments of painting, gilding, and embroidery are exceeding rich; and the pictures so numerously disposed, as to possess every part of the church in the inside, as well as the outside of the front. Here is shewn the monument of _Serbán_ the founder, with his princess, his brother, and other relations; whose pictures, among others, possess a great part of the western wall. Here also are kept the two _horse tails_, allowed by the Turks to be carried before this prince, together with the _bandiéra_ of the province, and another called the _paschal colours_, in which the whole _Trinity_ is profanely represented, and _God the Father_ expressed by the image of a reverend old man, looking over the body of our _Savior_, as it hangs upon the cross.