The Litchfield County post., 1828-10-02

commnnest food, of which every one gets
tired. They first appear as l have been
told, on apromoEtory near Dcrkon on the
Black Sea aud then on the promontory
| Of ST. Stephano, on the sea of Marmora. it
shoU!d seem, therefore, that their .migra-
, ton was from Russia, and their progress to
Africa. When they land, an bo!oi c they
! take their fight, the ground IS covered with
them, and as you walk along, they spring
up from every little tuft OF bash upon the
next day they are gone. b Is very ,enaEk-
able that, while every year presents Ibis
phenomenon, just under the eye, aud Cir
cumscribed to a particular spot, nobody can
re lily tell from whence they come CT WIFI
Their they, 60. Alter the mos dil;gent i'll
quiry, never could learn, that they had
been seen in flock fl ving over either land
or sea. To account for this, it has been
asserted that they migrate in the night but
if they crossed the Black Sea, they must be
on the wing during the day, for they have
no resting place until they arrive at Dor
Kon"
The route on the first day is represents
ed as extremely bad, even for an indiyidu-
| al traveller; the weather however, was We
ry stormy, and the season winter. Still it
must present great difficulties against the
approach of an army; and farther on DR..
W. says:
"The road which leads through these
plains is nothing more than a beaten path
over the grass, ever" one pursuing that he
prefers. In summer it is o I'm, "a breadth;
but in winner, when the rain .@.y I'll, ,',a IL
sual path is impossible, an. rve.5 der
seeks a new one beside tie .:.iu.. Sat
in some places the road ..-m ) So. 20
yards wide. The trav j ., ..wn,u., .::-
rected by certain mark ".-, S
he sees two little tum ,n,;q-. '...e
as hay ricks, between ~, n -. So
es; these are calleu Sa.d.t@ 5,s.I "a,
or Hlllocks of the Saclvl ) .at-.. On
all expeditions againsg the miiaalj - .u-
rope, whenever the army encamped ios he
night, two mounds were formed, on one vi
which was planted the standard Of Manonl-
ct, winch formed the centre Of the
encampment. There are no tumuli of
a larger size or of more ancient date, in
this nelghborhood. As those however, are
AT very distant intervals, other directions
were necessary. In January and Februa4s
ny cold Scy han wind passes over these
PLAINS, carrying with it immense drifts. of
snow, whicn soon oblilerate all appearance
OF former tracks. Travellers then miss their
way, and nunberS are every year found
dead in the drifts. About ten wears since.
"a se'ctAr, bear ng some news of importance
from Shumla to Constantinople, missed his
way in the sncw for several days, and near
ly persisted with all his suite. He there-
tore,at his own expense, erected stone posts
at Convenient intervals along the whole
line. Some few Of these remain, but the
greater number are broken or fallen down:
nor is it likely they will ever be restored
by the Turks. They were the only resem-
blance OF mlle-stones in the Ottoman En-
plre.
~
eve arrived at Kinliki. This was a
large and f1ourshing town twenty years a
go. 1t now consists of two or three mis-
cradle houses. 1t was, unfortunately for
the inhabitants, the scene of action in the
revolution of 1907 and s; and several en-
trenchments, thrown up near the remains
OF the town, mark the field of battle, as do
The ruins OF houses, scattered over wide
space, mark the site of large town. 1t is
one of the numerous melancholy memorials
of the rapid decay of this empire, and the
extinction of its population. In 20 years
large town is reduced to three houses, and
scarcely trace left of the former or its in
habitants.
At Burglar the weather was dark and
doubtful. at intervals splitting rain. We
wandered from the road into the pitchy
dar kness, and got entangled in the gardens
and old houses, and here we Aoundered for
a long time before we regained the road
AT length the horizon became streaked with
a parallel CLEAN of light, and extricated us
from our difficulties. We were now on the
spot which was the limit of the Russian
campaign in 1910. The main body of the
army proceeded no farther than Shumla:
but clouds of Cossack Tartars had passed
the Balkan and rode up to the suburbs of
Bnrghaz, which is within eighty-four miles
OF ConStantinople, having plundered the
country the whole way. The country was
the same fiat denuded plain as that we had
passed the day before, and these Tartars