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Title: Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Subjects: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Publisher: London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ther design than to look into the empty holes in its sides, they continued questioning, and with something of a less quiet demeanor, all the way to the post-house.There the crowd dispersed a little ; but Ahmed Aga beginning to apprehend that something very disagreeably serious mightensue from having gratified my curiosity, hastened our horses; and the instant they were ready, we mounted, and set off. It was four oclock when we had again threaded the narrow streets at a pretty quick pace, and took our course along the edge of the river, completely overshadowed by its thickly pres-sing houses. In this track, we passed the outer wall of a fine mosque, dedicated to Sultan Bayazed, and soon after crossed the Yekil-Irmak over a fine bridge of seven arches. The water beneath seemed very turbid and foul, and yet is used for all domestic purposes. But the banks being steep at various points, the inhabitants are obliged to raise it for use into wooden aqueducts by means of large wheels charged with leathern
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SKETCH OF THE CITY. 713 buckets on their outer circles. The flow of the river keepsthem in constant action ; and, as they move round, the regular progress throws the water they have taken up into the wooden channel placed properly to receive it. Had I been resident in Amassia, the state of the water would have made me regret the neglected situation of the pure flood from the Derbend, which once reached the city through its long mountain-channel. In our exit from the town, a travelling merchant asked leaveto join our party ; and from him I learnt, through the enquiries of Sedak, that the houses amounted to 6000 at least; and incalculating four inhabitants to each house, we have an amountof 24,000, which, I should suspect, exceeds the real population by one-third. Amassia has a manufactory of silk, which rivals that of every other place in the East, and is therefore its greatestobject of commerce. Our course lay N. 55° W., continuing down the valley, during which time I halted for a

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