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COVEL'S DIARY.
Turkes ; we found them civil, and had liberty to go in and
see what we desired. It is seated very pleasantly, being
overshadowed by many Chinar (or Plane) trees. The Lake
is round about environed with a great quantitye of sedge,
which yearly yeild a plentifull crop.
The river Tunza comes from a place cal'd now Yiano-
bole} but I never was higher upon it then this place; all the
way hither it runs very crooked and winding, and the hills
on both sides lye in like manner winding in and out, and
make a crook'd but large meadow or plain, in which the
G. Sr. or Vizier, drawing out their forces for the warres,
first pitch their tents. We saw all along the vestiges of
them, and many, many ovens and kitchings framed in the
earth, to make ready their bread (the true staff of a Jani-
zaryes life), and pelow," or Boiled rice.
From Caragatch to Adrianople we passe thre long
bridges, the first of wood, serviceable onely in winter,
the water being little or nothing in sommer; yet this
bridge is the longest, and the river under it is nothing but
sand. The second bridge is likewise wood, over a branch
of the river that runs all sommer; for after Arda and
Mellitch (Maritza) meet they go in one stream to the city,
where meeting with Tonza (Tondja), they again divide
into two streames, making severall very pleasant little
Islands. About 2 or 3 mile of the City, to the South, is
seated a large town call'd Bosnacui? where the French
Ambassadore was seated when he was at audience; and
he tells me that upon that Island are about 9 or 10 such
villages more. The rivers running on either side about 10
or 12 mile unite into one again, and the broad sandy brook
1 lanboli is now a town of six thousand inhabitants, on the left
bank of the Tondja, on the frontier of Roumelia.
2 Pilau.
3 I.e., Village of Bosnians, three miles south of Adrianople, on the
Maritza,
COVEL'S DIARY.
Turkes ; we found them civil, and had liberty to go in and
see what we desired. It is seated very pleasantly, being
overshadowed by many Chinar (or Plane) trees. The Lake
is round about environed with a great quantitye of sedge,
which yearly yeild a plentifull crop.
The river Tunza comes from a place cal'd now Yiano-
bole} but I never was higher upon it then this place; all the
way hither it runs very crooked and winding, and the hills
on both sides lye in like manner winding in and out, and
make a crook'd but large meadow or plain, in which the
G. Sr. or Vizier, drawing out their forces for the warres,
first pitch their tents. We saw all along the vestiges of
them, and many, many ovens and kitchings framed in the
earth, to make ready their bread (the true staff of a Jani-
zaryes life), and pelow," or Boiled rice.
From Caragatch to Adrianople we passe thre long
bridges, the first of wood, serviceable onely in winter,
the water being little or nothing in sommer; yet this
bridge is the longest, and the river under it is nothing but
sand. The second bridge is likewise wood, over a branch
of the river that runs all sommer; for after Arda and
Mellitch (Maritza) meet they go in one stream to the city,
where meeting with Tonza (Tondja), they again divide
into two streames, making severall very pleasant little
Islands. About 2 or 3 mile of the City, to the South, is
seated a large town call'd Bosnacui? where the French
Ambassadore was seated when he was at audience; and
he tells me that upon that Island are about 9 or 10 such
villages more. The rivers running on either side about 10
or 12 mile unite into one again, and the broad sandy brook
1 lanboli is now a town of six thousand inhabitants, on the left
bank of the Tondja, on the frontier of Roumelia.
2 Pilau.
3 I.e., Village of Bosnians, three miles south of Adrianople, on the
Maritza,