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40 The Deserof Larissa ^WThcsGly.
ties unto his Chapman,who commonly hands in the Street, 1 or ether
Commodities,a man riding through the Streets cries them, and gives no-
tice where, and at what rate they may be had.
Though I have been much pleased at the sight os the fine Stables of
Horses of many Princes in Chriflendoni, as at that of the Louvre in
Paris. The Vice-Roy’s of Naples. The Duke of Saxony s noble
Stable at Drefden, and Count Wallefteyne's at Prague in the last os
which each Horse hath a Marble Pillar- by him, eats his Provender out
of a Manger os polissied Marble upon a Pedehal of the same, placed in
a Nicchio, in which hangs also his rack of hammered Steel, and over
his head on one side his Pidure as big as the life. Yet thole gal-
lant Horses, I beheld at Lariffa were surprizing unto me, chofen from
all parts of the Turki/b Empire ; which were so richly equipped with
Bridles and Saddles set with precious Stones,and withal so tender mouth-
ed and tractable, that it was a great delight to behold them. I saw
some Tartarian Horses, which are of singular esteem, for hardiness,
lafling, and swiftness, but unsightly, and promise little, and when Cha
Gagt Aga, Ambassador from the Cham of Tart ary, presented some of
them to the Emperor of Germany, at firfl sight I thought them but a pi-
tiful present.
The Greek Merchants some of them learn the Italian Tongue,
in order to their Commerce: which makes that Language of
good use unto a Traveller in these parts, where French and Latine are
in a manner useless. The jfeiw speak commonly Spanijb, as they
do in Macedonia, Servia, and Bulgaria ; and High-Dutch in Hun-
garia.
I was in Theffaly at a very dry siason, and same considerable Rivers
were low, and small ones dry, yet one I observed about seven Miles on
this side Tornovo, to ssow plentifully from under a rocky Mountain ;
not in small springs or dreams; but the whole body os the River
came from under the Hill. The Country however in general was ve>
ry hot and dry,and I could not but think, what a different face it now
had, from that, in the time os Deucalion, King of Theffaly ; when that
memorable deluge happened in this Country, which some affirm, to
havelafled a whole Winter; occasioned by some flopping of the River
Peneus, and its current into the Sea; into which River molt of the
others run, and so an inundation mufl follow in such a Country as
Theffaly, which is plain, and encompassed with Hills. And some also
conceive, that in the firfl: times all this Country was under water, till
an Earthquake divided the Mountains of Offa and Olympus, and made
a free passage for Peneus, to pass by Tempe into the Sea. In Macedo-
nia, between C<wwmvzand Filurina, at a place called Ecciffo Verbe'ni,
where I saw plentiful Springs of Mineral waters, I had also a Prosped:
of two great Lakes; one whereof the People have a Tradition, that
it firit happened by taking great flones out of the side of a Mountain;
whereupon there issued out such a ssood of water, as to drown the
Country about, and tocause a Lake.
As I travelled in Macedonia, the C'hiaus told me, that within two
days he would show me French men, whereby he meant the Country
People of Theffaly, from some likeness of their Caps with small brims,
to the little Hats lately in falhion.
The
ties unto his Chapman,who commonly hands in the Street, 1 or ether
Commodities,a man riding through the Streets cries them, and gives no-
tice where, and at what rate they may be had.
Though I have been much pleased at the sight os the fine Stables of
Horses of many Princes in Chriflendoni, as at that of the Louvre in
Paris. The Vice-Roy’s of Naples. The Duke of Saxony s noble
Stable at Drefden, and Count Wallefteyne's at Prague in the last os
which each Horse hath a Marble Pillar- by him, eats his Provender out
of a Manger os polissied Marble upon a Pedehal of the same, placed in
a Nicchio, in which hangs also his rack of hammered Steel, and over
his head on one side his Pidure as big as the life. Yet thole gal-
lant Horses, I beheld at Lariffa were surprizing unto me, chofen from
all parts of the Turki/b Empire ; which were so richly equipped with
Bridles and Saddles set with precious Stones,and withal so tender mouth-
ed and tractable, that it was a great delight to behold them. I saw
some Tartarian Horses, which are of singular esteem, for hardiness,
lafling, and swiftness, but unsightly, and promise little, and when Cha
Gagt Aga, Ambassador from the Cham of Tart ary, presented some of
them to the Emperor of Germany, at firfl sight I thought them but a pi-
tiful present.
The Greek Merchants some of them learn the Italian Tongue,
in order to their Commerce: which makes that Language of
good use unto a Traveller in these parts, where French and Latine are
in a manner useless. The jfeiw speak commonly Spanijb, as they
do in Macedonia, Servia, and Bulgaria ; and High-Dutch in Hun-
garia.
I was in Theffaly at a very dry siason, and same considerable Rivers
were low, and small ones dry, yet one I observed about seven Miles on
this side Tornovo, to ssow plentifully from under a rocky Mountain ;
not in small springs or dreams; but the whole body os the River
came from under the Hill. The Country however in general was ve>
ry hot and dry,and I could not but think, what a different face it now
had, from that, in the time os Deucalion, King of Theffaly ; when that
memorable deluge happened in this Country, which some affirm, to
havelafled a whole Winter; occasioned by some flopping of the River
Peneus, and its current into the Sea; into which River molt of the
others run, and so an inundation mufl follow in such a Country as
Theffaly, which is plain, and encompassed with Hills. And some also
conceive, that in the firfl: times all this Country was under water, till
an Earthquake divided the Mountains of Offa and Olympus, and made
a free passage for Peneus, to pass by Tempe into the Sea. In Macedo-
nia, between C<wwmvzand Filurina, at a place called Ecciffo Verbe'ni,
where I saw plentiful Springs of Mineral waters, I had also a Prosped:
of two great Lakes; one whereof the People have a Tradition, that
it firit happened by taking great flones out of the side of a Mountain;
whereupon there issued out such a ssood of water, as to drown the
Country about, and tocause a Lake.
As I travelled in Macedonia, the C'hiaus told me, that within two
days he would show me French men, whereby he meant the Country
People of Theffaly, from some likeness of their Caps with small brims,
to the little Hats lately in falhion.
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