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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65620	A journey into Greece by George Wheler, Esq., in company of Dr. Spon of Lyons in six books ... : with variety of sculptures.	Wheler, George, Sir, 1650-1723.; Spon, Jacob, 1647-1685.	1682 (1682)	Wing W1607; ESTC R9388	386,054	401

admirable Description of a Storm we had in each point so dreadfully experimented How could we then forbear taking his Advice and give Him the Praise who so graciously was pleased to deliver us from those Terrours of Death encompassing of us round about And how could we more acceptably express our Gratitude than by that Sacred Hymn he had inspired the best of Poets as well as Kings with part of which I have endeavoured in our Language thus to Paraphrase O that Mankind would praise the Lord and show His Wonders done for Mortals here below And here 't is just for me to bear my part Who though I want fit Words want not a Heart From the safe Port whom gentle Gales invite To loose to Sea and take a Wat'ry Flight These plainly see God's Wonders in the Deep These surely learn who 't is their Souls doth keep When on the smoothest Calm the Heavens frown And Storms from Mountain tops send Thund'ring down They soon print Wrinkles on its polish'd Brow And into Mounts and Vales those Plains do plow The Waves lift up their Voice the Billows rage No Mortal Pow'r their Fury can asswage They foam and roar they toss the Ships so high That many times they seem to touch the 〈◊〉 But soon are plung'd again into the Deep And in the World's Abyss do trembling peep Few there have any Appetite to Meat And those that have can no where sit to eat Like Drunken Men they stagger to and fro On dancing Decks what mortal Man can go Their Wits quite gone their Reason from them fled They look upon themselves already dead Then cry they to the Lord in their distress For God alone such Troubles can redress He soon Commands the Winds into his Treasure And rolls the plough'd-up Floods to Vales of Pleasure He brings them safe to their desired Port He gives them Rest and is their strongest Fort. Why then should Men neglect to praise his Name Who furious Winds and raging Seas doth tame The End of the Third BOOk THE Fourth BOOK CONTAINING A VOYAGE FROM ZANT THROUGH Several Parts of GREECE TO ATHENS SO soon as we had kept our Christmas a Ship-board with our Captain not being permitted to do it a Shore coming from those Parts of Turky suspected of Contagion we hired a good Barque with a Greek that could speak Italian and a little English to serve us and notwithstanding we had once been turned back by contrary Winds the day before yet December 28th we passed over to Castle-Tornese CASTLE-TORNESE being about eighteen or twenty Miles to the nearest Shore of Peloponnesus now called Morea The Castle is upon a Hill half a dozen Miles from the Shore But we went forward and turned the Promontory Chelonitis between it and a Scoglio called Cacolidida with Shallows about it and by ten in the Morning made thirty Miles from Zant to Chiarenza a ruined City formerly belonging to the Venetians There are such vast Masses of Wall turned upside down joyned together with so hard a cement that they are not much broken but so big that it could be nothing but Gun-Powder or an Earthquake that could have removed them from their Foundations in that manner The Situation CHIARENZA olim CYLLENE and those Marks of Antiquity assured us That this was the antient City Cyllene the Country of Mercury from whence he was sirnamed Cyl●nius But his Eloquence hath so little prevail'd with Saturn and Mars that they have not spared either his City or Country it being left without Habitation or an Inhabitant The Port is now fill'd up with Sand and Earth but there is good Anchorage in the Bay without yet open to the North and North-East-Winds Here lay then three small Vessels they call Tartans much used by the French Merchants They live well at Sea and will make way very close to the Wind. These coming to lade Provisions for Messina we found that Oxen were then sold for five or six Dollers a piece Sheep for about three Shi●ings and Corn as good cheap About two Miles further is a Covent o● Greek-Monks About six Miles South-East of Castle-Tornese is a Town the Turks call Clemouzzi CLEMOUZZY GASTOUNI About sixteen from thence also is another indifferent large Town called Gastouni which is about five Miles from the Sea and on a River which perhaps was the River Penea Thence continuing along the Coasts of the Morea twenty Miles further we came to Cotichi COTICHI where there is a Fishing Place called Pescharia which is a Lake fed and stored by the Sea where in July they catch abundance of Mullets to make Botargus and Salt-Fish There is such abundance of all sorts of Wild Fowl Ducks Teals Wild-Geese Pelicans c. resort thither as would bring much Profit in any Place but Turky were a Decoy made there Here we lay all Night in our Boat The next day we parted early and keeping still along the same Shore CONOPOLI we came to a Point about six Miles thence called Conopoli On the top of the Rock is a ruined Tower with the Rubbish of a Town about it but what it was formerly called I know not From the Foot of the Rock is a Spring of Hot Salt and Bituminous Water which runneth down into the Sea within a yard or two of its Source About it I observed plenty of Common Alexanders Cyclamen PLANTS or Sowbread Anagyris foetida then in flower which grows to a good big Shrub of a yard and half high whose Twigs are set with a large three-fold Leaf each of which are long and somewhat narrow of a deep green colour and of a strong stinking smell The Flowers also grow out in little bunches like the other Laburnum but larger and of a deeper yellow colour spotted also with black or Hare-colour'd Spots The outward Leaf is the shortest the next pair longer and the inmost longest all divided at the ends The Flower is succeeded by a long Cod like a French Bean filled at like distances with a Seed as big of a blue or purple colour and exceeding hard Staphys agria or Staves-acre not long come up from the Seeds A kind of Bryony not differing from the white above ground only the Leaves were spotted with white Spots Hence we had the Prospect of a large Plain along the Shore beyond us and behind us but a good way within the Land most part of it is covered with Pine-Trees Continuing yet six or seven Miles further along the same Coasts we came to another point called Cape Calogrea Cape CALOGREA where we were shewed a Well or Fountain called Durach-bey because dug by a famous Turkish Pirate of that Name By this are the Mouths of two Rivers near together or the same River emptying it self by two Mouths for our Mariners assured us they were distinct One of them very probably is the River Larissus of the Antients LARISSUS Fluv which distinguished the Provinces of Eleum and Dimaeum Near

The Remarks that I made of it are these The Manuscript hath Tibullus Catullus and Propertius at the beginning and not Horace as the Preface to the Padua-Edition affirmeth In Propertius is to be noted the Cognomen Nautae that Scaliger taketh notice of in his Notes After these followeth in the same hand and on the same sort of paper eaten alike by the Worms on the corners of the Margent Petrontus Arbiter as it is printed whose Title written in red Letters is as followeth Petronius Arbiter Petronii Arbitri Satyri fragmentum ex Labro Quinto Decimo Sexto Decimo In which among others the Coena Trimalcionis is very amply related as it is printed at Padua and in Holland After which in a more modern hand is written Claudian Dr. Statelius made us also take notice that at the end of Catullus which is of the Book pag. 179. at the lower corner of the Margent the corner of which is eaten off with the Worms with several other leaves is the Date written in the same ancient hand with the P. Arbiter Thus 1423.20 Nobr Chapt. 6. Vers 200. Here we waited on Signior Dragatzo Doctor of the Law an ingenious and civil person also who shewed us in his Garden and other places about the Town half a dozen of ancient Roman Inscriptions which he would have made a present of to us could we have had convenience to have transported them Hence we returned again to Spalatro the same evening The Embassadour being weary of the Sea by that time he arrived at Spalatro resolved to make the rest of his Journey by Land to the Grand Signior's Court which was then at Adrianople But the Gallies that accompanied him and carried the Presents which the State makes by every Embassadour to the Port and his other Baggage proceeded as far as Corfu Therefore so soon as the Horses were come which were sent for four or five days Journey off in the Turkish Territories he departed by Land and we with the Galles for Corfu where they were to put all on board the Ships which waited there for that purpose July the Thirteenth on Sunday-morning by two a Clock after eleven days stay at Spalatro we parted and came by noon to Lesina which lieth Thirty miles from Spalatro LESINAE PORTUS L j. Fig VIII Lesina is the Isle Ptolomy calls Pharia Lesina and Strabo Pharos It is very high rocky and mountainous and by computation a hundred miles in circuit It hath a good Haven at the South-end where the Town is called by the name of the Isle It represents the Form of a Theater whereof the Town possesseth the place of the spectators yet appeareth most beautiful to those that enter the Area which is the Port being built in several degrees one above another according to the rising of the ground having a Cittadel on the top of a steep Rock backed with exceeding high Mountains It lies against the South and hath a Harbour secured from that Wind by the Roeks that lie before it They have beautified the Shore on each side with a good Mole made out of the Rocks which there are in too great plenty To conclude it hath good Moorage and is deep enough for Ships of any rate Here is very good Bread and Wine and good cheap I believe for our Captain touched here to furnish himself with Biscuit Their greatest Trade is Fishing of Sardelli which are like Anchovies and some think the same In May and June they are caught here and upon the Shore of Dalmatia near L'Isa South of this Isle in such abundance that they furnish all Parts of Italy and Greece with them The Turks take them as Physick when they are sick They follow a light and flock together about a Boat that carries it in the night and so are caught with great facility With no small difficulty I gat on the top of the highest Mountain that overlooketh the Town and was recompensed for my pains with an unbounded prospect Hence I discerned a Promontory near Zara which the Watch-men upon it assured me was a hundred miles off Hence Spalatro lies North Thirty miles and Lissa as much to the South Hence Ships Gallies Barques and other Vessels are discerned a vast way off by the Watch-men who give notice by signs to the Fort below how many what they are and which way they fail There are several good Buildings here especially the Domo and Town-house and in a word the situation is very agreeable In climbing up to the Fort and Mountain I observed among others these Plants 1. Aconitum Lycoctinum flore Delphinii which I took to be a kind of Monks-head 2. Aloe in flower 3. Asphodelus Min. Junci folio seu fistulosâ non bulbosâ radice 4. Malva Romana rubra or red Holihachs 5. Juniperus Major or Oxy-cedrus 6. Linaria tenui folio 7. Genista or Spartium septimum Bauhini as I believe It s Root is thick and of substance like Pimpinella out of which spring some half a dozen or more branches of a handful or two high without leaves of a light green colour and of a substance like Spanish-broom but beyond comparison less It still divides it self into three twigs sometimes one of those three points divides it self into three more That which makes me doubt whether it be this as Monsieur Merchaund of Paris hath named it is That the Root seemeth hot and of a spicy taste 8. Pilosella major pilosissima This Plant is very like to Great Mouse-ear in leaves and height being half a foot high or more and the leaves near as long But the hair is of such a prodigious length that it is to be wondred at being little less than an Inch long and very thick We parted hence after Dinner and arrived that evening at Curzola called by Strabo Corcyra Nigra This Island belonged formerly to the Republique of Ragusa and was taken from them by the Venetians by this pleasant stratagem The Venetians had a little Island called Saint Mark so near to Ragusa that it commanded the Town and yet nearer a little Rock that had no more plain ground on the top then would be sufficient to lay the Foundations of a little house Hither the Venetians upon some high disgust sent men one night that built a little Fort of Past-board painted of the colour of Earth which made it look like a strong Rampart and thereon planted Wooden Cannons to the great amazement of the Towns-people next morning which in effect put them into such a fright that they sent presently to parly and were glad to come off for the Island of Curzola in exchange of that pittiful Rock They stood for the Scoglio of Saint Mark also but the Venetians would not part with that And so they lost Curzola which is of great use to the Venetians who come hither often to mend and repair their Vessels the Island being well covered with Woods The Town is of the same name with the Island and situated upon a