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Travels in Asia Minor, and Greece; Or, an Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti
Travels in Asia Minor and Greece Or an Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti Author:Richard Chandler General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1817 Original Publisher: printed for J. Booker and R. Priestley [by J. F. Dove] Subjects: Turkey Greece Asia Minor History / Ancient / Greece History / Middle East / General History / Europe / Greece Travel / Middle East / General Notes: This is a black and whi... more »te OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: We were lodged, much to our satisfaction, in a large room, with a raised floor matted, on which we slept in our clothes, in company with two Jews and several Greeks ; a cool breeze entering all night at the latticed windows, and sweetening our repose. In these countries, on account of the heat, it is usual to rise with the dawn. About day-break we received from the French consul, a Greek with a respectable beard, a present of grapes, the clusters large and rich, with other fruits, all fresh gathered. We had, besides, bread and coffee for breakfast, and good wines, particularly one sort, of an exquisite flavour, called Muscadel. The island is deservedly famous for the species of vine, which produces this delicious liquor We had been told, that an ancient building remained on the south side of the island, not much out of our way to the ruins of a city called Eski-Stamboul, on the continent of Asia. Our Turks were waiting at the boat, and we just ready to join them, when we were informed that a wherry was arrived from the Asiatic Dardanell, which she had lately left, and that the presence of the consul was "required on some very urgent business at Constantinople. His brother, who had set sail in the morning early to overtake him, remained with us in his stead, and soon won our regard by his attention and civility. CHAP. VII. Leave Tenedos -- An antiquity on the island -- . ...« less