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FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO LONDON
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all that daie, ascendinge and descendinge pleasant moun-
tains1, which exceeded all others that ever I sawe for height
and beautie, not steepie, but gentlie riseinge by degrees,
the Topps being as good ground as the bottome and as
firtill, these mightie Hills beinge full of prettie swellings,
aboundinge with springs from the foote to the head, and
Rivers in all the valleyes which run into the lowermost
vallies of all2. Yett lyes this pleasant peece of Countrey in
a manner waste, and growen with weeds and woods of
exceeding high trees, as Oake, Maple, etts.3, saveinge some
fewe places heere and there, which poore Christians make
use of for a little Tillage and keepeinge a few Cattle. To-
wards .the end, wee descended a hill much more steepie
then the rest, over against which was a huge mountainous
Rock of an incredible height and steepienesse4, betwene
both which runne a River5 with a Stone bridge, by which
wee found such quantitie of good ripe Strawburryes as none
of our Companie ever sawe the like, soe that a man might
gather them by handfulls in a manner, Alsoe manie wilde
1 " Faire shadie woods, most pleasant, firtill, aspiring Mouii-
taines." Author's marginal note. Pindar's train was now entering
the mountain system of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the various chains
of which connect the Uinaric Alps with the Albanian. They consist
of short ridges and plateaus, generally running from N.W. to S.E.,
rising from 3000 to 5000 feet in height. Their slopes are covered
with forests of pine, oak and beech. In a map of 1830 (B.M. 43625. 1)
they are called the Zarugie Mountains. In a map of 1892 (B.M.
44250. 13) the elevated land (alp) west of Valjevo is called the Radjevo
Planina and the Maljevo Planina.
2 The route followed on this day, after leaving Valjevo, seems to
have been up the Jablanitza, over the Medvednjik Planina, and down
the Ljubowija.
3 See Blount's remarks on this district in Appendix A.
4 In a map of 1712 (B.M., K. 113. 15) the Crance Mountains are
marked between the Kolubara and the Drina Rivers, and, in a map of
1876 (B.M., S. 238. 13), two peaks, named Jablanck and Medvednjik
(3090 feet high), are marked in the same district, with a tributary of
the Drina between them.
Here the author has a marginal note, "A steepie, ragged, Rockye
mountaine."
5 ?The Ljubowija.
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all that daie, ascendinge and descendinge pleasant moun-
tains1, which exceeded all others that ever I sawe for height
and beautie, not steepie, but gentlie riseinge by degrees,
the Topps being as good ground as the bottome and as
firtill, these mightie Hills beinge full of prettie swellings,
aboundinge with springs from the foote to the head, and
Rivers in all the valleyes which run into the lowermost
vallies of all2. Yett lyes this pleasant peece of Countrey in
a manner waste, and growen with weeds and woods of
exceeding high trees, as Oake, Maple, etts.3, saveinge some
fewe places heere and there, which poore Christians make
use of for a little Tillage and keepeinge a few Cattle. To-
wards .the end, wee descended a hill much more steepie
then the rest, over against which was a huge mountainous
Rock of an incredible height and steepienesse4, betwene
both which runne a River5 with a Stone bridge, by which
wee found such quantitie of good ripe Strawburryes as none
of our Companie ever sawe the like, soe that a man might
gather them by handfulls in a manner, Alsoe manie wilde
1 " Faire shadie woods, most pleasant, firtill, aspiring Mouii-
taines." Author's marginal note. Pindar's train was now entering
the mountain system of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the various chains
of which connect the Uinaric Alps with the Albanian. They consist
of short ridges and plateaus, generally running from N.W. to S.E.,
rising from 3000 to 5000 feet in height. Their slopes are covered
with forests of pine, oak and beech. In a map of 1830 (B.M. 43625. 1)
they are called the Zarugie Mountains. In a map of 1892 (B.M.
44250. 13) the elevated land (alp) west of Valjevo is called the Radjevo
Planina and the Maljevo Planina.
2 The route followed on this day, after leaving Valjevo, seems to
have been up the Jablanitza, over the Medvednjik Planina, and down
the Ljubowija.
3 See Blount's remarks on this district in Appendix A.
4 In a map of 1712 (B.M., K. 113. 15) the Crance Mountains are
marked between the Kolubara and the Drina Rivers, and, in a map of
1876 (B.M., S. 238. 13), two peaks, named Jablanck and Medvednjik
(3090 feet high), are marked in the same district, with a tributary of
the Drina between them.
Here the author has a marginal note, "A steepie, ragged, Rockye
mountaine."
5 ?The Ljubowija.