ABSTRACT
Here is the Seate of the Beglerbeg or Viceroy of all Greece, by the Turkes called Rumely1; with many brave Mescheetoes, especially the great one in the middle of the Towne, and another in the South-side, with a magnificent Colledge: it hath many stately Hanes or Kirevanserahes *, and exquisite Bathes, the principall hath a hot Fountaine...wee went...in three dayes to Potarzeeke: the passage is famous for Antiquities: sixteene, or eighteene miles East-ward of Sophya, wee past over the Hill Rhodope where Orpheus lamented his Euridice3: it hath divers inequalities of ground, none very steepe, all covered with Low Woods, now watched with divers, who by reason of the frequent robberies there committed, doe, by little Drums4, give the inhabitants warning of all suspicious passengers : in the lowest of these descents runnes a little Brooke, of which I conjectured, and a learned Jew...confirmed, that the old Poets had made the River Strymon, where the disconsolate Orpheus was torne in pieces by the Thracian Dames; for that place hath ever beene uncertainely reckoned to Macedonia, Thrace and Thessaly5.
