February xvi.
We travel still over the Temnus, and on our right hand discover a large open vale on the top of the mountain, rich and well cultivated. In somewhat more than six hours we had passed the Temnus, and enter into a rich plain extended all along the backside of Ida, now Cordág; at the foot of which, about four miles distant from the road we descry the agreable seat of Balihísar. From this side of Ida thro a rich and fertile campain flows the river Aesépus, now called Simow by the Turks, which we cross by an old bridge at the village of Mandahóra, and there take our conáck in a large and convenient kane; which is more to be noted for its seven large pillars of course porphyry, now employed to support the roof of this barbarous edifice, but might possibly once stand in some fabric of antient Troy, from whence Mandahóra is distant about ten hours.