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Records of travels in Turkey, Greece, &c., and of a cruise in the Black Sea, with the capitan pasha, in the years 1829, 1830, and 1831 / By Adolphus Slade.

  • Slade, Adolphus, Sir, 1804-1877
Date:
1833
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Credit: Records of travels in Turkey, Greece, &c., and of a cruise in the Black Sea, with the capitan pasha, in the years 1829, 1830, and 1831 / By Adolphus Slade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE BALKAN. 419 faint resistance, fled, leaving1 his cannon, a few killed, and two hundred prisoners. From Dervish Keuy, two roads led over the mountains ; one by the coast, the other, trans¬ versely, towards Aidos. Vast woods overhung them, by means of which—cutting down the trees across them, and planting batteries in the intervals, so as to enfilade the zigzag paths—the Turks might have made a good resistance, even after their surprise on the Kampthcik. But the panic, there sown, spread from post to post; and the dust, raised by the heads of the Russian columns, was, in general, their signal of flight. By those two roads the divisions passed, the cavalry leading their horses, more for the purpose of being secure from riflemen, than from any diffi¬ culty of the route. July 20th, General Reidiger reached the highest point* of his march, and the next day descended into the plains of Roumelia; thus completing, without opposition, this ever memorable passage, which the Russians, in their * According to the surveys of the Russian engineers, the height of the Balkan, where the army crossed, is 1,800 feet; at the pass of Kasan, twelve hours west of Schumla, 3,000 feet; at its greatest elevation, about the neighbourhood of Sophia, barely 6,000 feet. What mole-hills to make such a fuss about! E E 2