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February xii.
We set forward this morning by six a clock, and about midday journeying to the left of mount Sipylus, and the fair city of Magnesia, we first cross a small bridge over a river, which feeds the Hermus, and about one a clock pass the Hermus itself, on a bridge of an hundred and sixty paces in length. From hence we ride half an hour on the silver banks of that pleasant river, and thence over the plain to Tartalécui, where we conáck.
February xiii.
We proceed on those fair plains, which lead towards Thyatira, and within an hour of the town come to the Hyllus or Phrygius, not now passable at its usual ford; we therefore ride along its banks, and crossing near to Thyatira arrive there in six hours from our last conáck. This city is seated in a pleasant and fruitful plain, well watered and wooded, and rich in many productions, but particularly that of excellent cottons. About the city I observed a great quantity of misseltoe on pear and almond trees, so thick on some of them, as to form the appearance of a true evergreen, covered with its own leaves and branches. And the like I afterwards observed on an alder, not far from Sorrícui. I here took these three Greek inscriptions, which have not, that I remember, been observed by others; and were before omitted by me, when at this place. The first of which is as follows.
ΑΓΑΘΗΙ ΤΥΧΗΙ
ΟΙ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΝ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΑ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΩΝ
ΚΑΙ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΝ ΤΟΥ ΤΡΙΤΟΥ ΝΕΑΝΙΣΚΙΟΙ[97] ΑΥΡ.
ΘΗΣΕΑ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΟΝ ΝΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΑ ΕΝ-