ΘΕΟΔΟΡΟΥ ΚΟΜΝΗΝΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΛΑϹΚΑΡΙ
... ΜΗΝΙ ΟΚΤΟΒΡΙΩ
It was made the first capital of the Turkish empire by Osmán, or Ottoman, the founder of that monarchy. And it has the monument not only of the said Ottoman, but likewise of his immediate successors, Orchán, Solymán, Amurát, Bagazet, and Mahomet the first.
June xxi.
This morning about eleven a clock I set forward on my journey, in company of a caraván bound to several parts on the road to Smyrna. With these I now travel three hours, and then conáck with them upon a convenient plat of grass, on the plains of Prusia. In the midway we cross the river Hippius runing thro these plains into the Sinus Cianus.
June xxii.
We travel this day to the left of the Palus Artynia, which being fed from mount Olympus, extends itself the length of many miles, and shews several little islands, in which are one or two compact Greek towns. At length the lake vents itself by the chanel of the river Rhyndacus, at which we arrive about six a clock this evening, and passing it at a long wooden bridge, near the ruins of another built of stone, we take up our conáck on the opposite bank, in a village now called Ulubat, but antiently Apollonia ad Rhyndacum.
June xxiii.
We ride eight hours, and then bait on the banks of a little river, which runs towards those called the Adrastian plains. Three hours farther, at the village of Susegierlíck we cross the fair large and sandy chanel of the Aesépus, and proceeding still two hours more we at length conáck upon the hills.