. A description of the East, and some other countries . cape; there is a hot mineral water at this place,land another to the north weft, at a place called Joloway: I was informed alfo, that at the north weft point of the cape, at a place called Courai,I there is a hot water, where there is a convent belonging to the monaftery of faint George of Halki5, which I have already mentioned, among the Princes Iflands: The Greeks go once a year to that place out of devo-ition, and to bath in the hot mud, it being efteemed a great remedy forI many diforders, particularly the fciatica. We touched at Rodo
. A description of the East, and some other countries . cape; there is a hot mineral water at this place,land another to the north weft, at a place called Joloway: I was informed alfo, that at the north weft point of the cape, at a place called Courai,I there is a hot water, where there is a convent belonging to the monaftery of faint George of Halki5, which I have already mentioned, among the Princes Iflands: The Greeks go once a year to that place out of devo-ition, and to bath in the hot mud, it being efteemed a great remedy forI many diforders, particularly the fciatica. We touched at Rodofto inthe way to Gallipoli, where the plague had begun to rage, and I lodgedI there all night in a cofFee-houfe; we went the next day to Gallipoli; where I immediately embarked for the Dardanels, when I was informed that1 the plague had alfo broke out in that city. From the Dardanels weI paffed by Tenedus, faw the ruins of Troas, embarked for Lemnos, andi went from that ifland to mount Athos; of which I fliall give an account1 in the following book. i. Vol. II. Part II. li A DES- 12,6 O B S E RVATlO N S A DESCRIPTION O F The EAST. ^c. BOOK the Third. Of Thrace and Greece. CHAP. I. Of Thrace in general j and of Constantinople. THRACE was bounded to the weft by mount Hjemus, and the riverNa:ftus, and on the other fides by the Propontis, jEgean, andEuxine feas : It was a Roman diocefe, and by the Greekchurch was divided into four provinces: Europa, which was probablyon the fea to the eaft; Hsmimontana, to the weft at mount Hjemus,in which was Plotinopolis; Rhodope, about the mountains of that name,in which was Trajanople ; and Thrace-Proper, probably in the middle be-tween them, of vyhich we may fuppofe Adrianople was the capital. Thraceis very far from being a barren country, as feme of the antients havedefcribed it, for the part I faw of it is naturally one of the fineft coun-tries I have feen, and the richeft foil; and fo they fay it is to the weftof Adrianople: As mount Hsmus
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