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HINTS TO TRAVELLERS.
[Chap. x.
winter. There is nothing that should be so strongly im-
pressed upon all travellers in the East as the advantages to
be derived from totally refraining from wine and spirits while
travelling. The water is everywhere excellent, and there is
no temptation to indulge in the use of the wine of the
country. The little stimulus it might occasionally inspire, is
dearly obtained at the risk of fever, ague, and diarrhoea,
whilst, on the other hand, the disuse of it renders the travel-
ler cheerful and light, and, when refreshed with a few hours'
sleep, ready to be off early the next day. But it is not
enough to confine his beverage to water and coffee; it is
equally advisable, particularly while travelling during the
heat of summer, not to drink cold water during the day,
but to wait until the evening meal, which should be after
sunset. This privation may be a little inconvenient at
first, but is more than repaid by the advantages derived
from not checking the perspiration which is going on during
the day. The same objection does not apply to the use
of warm coffee, which may be indulged in at all times ; and
the quantity taken at a time is so small, that the stomach
cannot be overloaded.
We had succeeded in this journey in tracing the Ehyn-
dacus from the lake of Apollonia to its sources, visiting the
site of Hadriani, fixing those of Trajanopolis and Sebaste
of Phrygia, and in ascertaining that the ruins at Suleimanli
were those of Blaundus, not of Clanudda, a place which I
believe never existed; and we had also obtained some
information respecting the geology of the Catacecaumene,
indicative of the close analogy between that district and
central France. Mr. Strickland was now1 to return to
England, and I had to determine in which direction I
should next proceed. Circumstances soon decided for me,
and led me off to the distant mountains of Armenia, from
whence I returned to Smyrna by a new route.
HINTS TO TRAVELLERS.
[Chap. x.
winter. There is nothing that should be so strongly im-
pressed upon all travellers in the East as the advantages to
be derived from totally refraining from wine and spirits while
travelling. The water is everywhere excellent, and there is
no temptation to indulge in the use of the wine of the
country. The little stimulus it might occasionally inspire, is
dearly obtained at the risk of fever, ague, and diarrhoea,
whilst, on the other hand, the disuse of it renders the travel-
ler cheerful and light, and, when refreshed with a few hours'
sleep, ready to be off early the next day. But it is not
enough to confine his beverage to water and coffee; it is
equally advisable, particularly while travelling during the
heat of summer, not to drink cold water during the day,
but to wait until the evening meal, which should be after
sunset. This privation may be a little inconvenient at
first, but is more than repaid by the advantages derived
from not checking the perspiration which is going on during
the day. The same objection does not apply to the use
of warm coffee, which may be indulged in at all times ; and
the quantity taken at a time is so small, that the stomach
cannot be overloaded.
We had succeeded in this journey in tracing the Ehyn-
dacus from the lake of Apollonia to its sources, visiting the
site of Hadriani, fixing those of Trajanopolis and Sebaste
of Phrygia, and in ascertaining that the ruins at Suleimanli
were those of Blaundus, not of Clanudda, a place which I
believe never existed; and we had also obtained some
information respecting the geology of the Catacecaumene,
indicative of the close analogy between that district and
central France. Mr. Strickland was now1 to return to
England, and I had to determine in which direction I
should next proceed. Circumstances soon decided for me,
and led me off to the distant mountains of Armenia, from
whence I returned to Smyrna by a new route.