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.