We this day pass a street called the Irongate, and in seven hours arrive at the fair capacious kane of Mandahóra, where are seven rude porphyry pillars thought to be of Trojan original. Here we repose till towards evening, and then once more crossing the Aesépus, which rising in Ida continues its course under the houses of this village, we proceed about an hour, and then lodge in a grassy plat about an hour to the left of Balihísar.
June xxv.
Rising now a little after midnight we proceed seven hours, and then resting in the woods till three in the afternoon, we pass by the usual conáck of Kurugelchíck, and one hour and an half from thence at length lodge in a pleasant green spot of ground on the mountain Temnus.
June xxvi.
By four a clock we proceed, and having passed the Temnus, by seven a clock we cross the chanel of the Caicus, which here is but small, not being far distant from its fountain head. But an hour farther at Gelemba we again observe it now much enlarged, and runing by the kane and houses of that place, from whence it bends its course on the left hand to Pergamus. At this kane we repose half an hour, and afterwards in the plains two or three hours more; but about midday we again remount, and in four hours cross the Hyllus, at a strait betwixt two hills; in an hour after which, in the midst of a fruitful and delicious plain, we arrive at Thyatira.
June xxvii.
I repose this day at Thyatira, which by the Turks is now called Akhísar. My design in staying here was to observe the scattered remains of architecture, which are to be seen in many places, together with some inscriptions. The most remarkable of these is one published, but erroneously, by Sir George Wheler[90]; which I copied from a stone coffin, on which it is cut.
ΦΑΒΙΟΣ ΖΩΣΙΜΟΣ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΑΣΑΣ ΣΟΡΟΝ ΕΘΕΤΟ ΕΠΙ ΤΟ-
ΠΟΥ ΚΑΘΑΡΟΥ ΟΝΤΟΣ ΠΡΟ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΕΩΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΩΙ ΣΑΜ-