The land is generally of excellent quality.

It lies spread out in beautiful levels, and undulating, gently rising hills.

In the neighborhood of villages it is covered with rich fields of grain, but elsewhere, for successive miles, it is roamed over by flocks of sheep, which, however, cannot crop a tithe of the grass.

It is a beautiful region, waiting for the taste and intelligence of virtuous industry to make it a paradise." We have also a charming view given us of the hundred miles of country between Adrianople and Philippopolis, as it presented itself to the travellers in the opening of spring.

"The Greek race disappears entirely from the soil, and the predominant race is the Bulgarian.