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Chap, xxxvii.]
LAKE OF MANIYAS.
105
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Leave Aidinjik—Lake of Maniyas—Kazakli—Kara Su—Meulver Kieui—Ma-
niyas, anc. Pcemanenus—Susugherli—Task Kapou—Ildiz—Kespit—Course of
the Macestus, or Simaul Su—Inscriptions at Kespit—Kalbourja—Opium—Boga-
ditza—Siiigerli.
Tuesday, May 30.—One of the principal objects of my
present expedition was to trace- the course of the Maces-
tus, as I had followed that of the Rhyndacus last year, in
company with Mr. Strickland. I therefore determined to
proceed by Susugherli, Bogaditza and Singerli to Simaul,
where I expected to find the sources of the river, which,
in the upper part of its course, is called the Simaul Sii,
and in the lower, the Susugherli Sii. We left Aidinjik
at half-past six for Meulver Kieui, eight hours distant.
For several miles the road led over an undulating country,
with few traces of cultivation, and where scarcely a tree
was visible. Nine miles south of Aidinjik we reached the
lake of Maniyas, the ancient Miletopolis: its shores are
flat and marshy, and subject to frequent inundations in the
winter; the water appears shallow to a great distance.
Two miles further we arrived at a large village called
Kazakli, at the western extremity of the lake. On entering
it, I was surprised to see a wooden cross surmounting a
small building, apparently a chapel, and still more so at
the fair and clean appearance and Teutonic expression of
the women and children, their neat dresses, and their active
movements, so different from the gravity of the Turks, or
the listlessness of the Greeks. It proved to be a Cossack
settlement established by the Porte after the capture of
Ismail by the Russians, their ancestors having preferred
Turkish to Russian despotism. The inhabitants still pre-
serve their language and their dress, and few of them can
LAKE OF MANIYAS.
105
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Leave Aidinjik—Lake of Maniyas—Kazakli—Kara Su—Meulver Kieui—Ma-
niyas, anc. Pcemanenus—Susugherli—Task Kapou—Ildiz—Kespit—Course of
the Macestus, or Simaul Su—Inscriptions at Kespit—Kalbourja—Opium—Boga-
ditza—Siiigerli.
Tuesday, May 30.—One of the principal objects of my
present expedition was to trace- the course of the Maces-
tus, as I had followed that of the Rhyndacus last year, in
company with Mr. Strickland. I therefore determined to
proceed by Susugherli, Bogaditza and Singerli to Simaul,
where I expected to find the sources of the river, which,
in the upper part of its course, is called the Simaul Sii,
and in the lower, the Susugherli Sii. We left Aidinjik
at half-past six for Meulver Kieui, eight hours distant.
For several miles the road led over an undulating country,
with few traces of cultivation, and where scarcely a tree
was visible. Nine miles south of Aidinjik we reached the
lake of Maniyas, the ancient Miletopolis: its shores are
flat and marshy, and subject to frequent inundations in the
winter; the water appears shallow to a great distance.
Two miles further we arrived at a large village called
Kazakli, at the western extremity of the lake. On entering
it, I was surprised to see a wooden cross surmounting a
small building, apparently a chapel, and still more so at
the fair and clean appearance and Teutonic expression of
the women and children, their neat dresses, and their active
movements, so different from the gravity of the Turks, or
the listlessness of the Greeks. It proved to be a Cossack
settlement established by the Porte after the capture of
Ismail by the Russians, their ancestors having preferred
Turkish to Russian despotism. The inhabitants still pre-
serve their language and their dress, and few of them can