There were numerous mosques, and five Greek and three Bulgarian churches.

The Romanists were building a large church edifice.

The situation of Eski Zagra was at the northern extremity of a luxuriant and beautiful plain, and contained ten thousand Bulgarians and eight thousand Turks.
Mr.Byington found a remarkable zeal for education.

There were in the town six Bulgarian schools for boys, with eight hundred scholars, and four for girls with one hundred and thirty-five scholars; and in the surrounding villages there were eleven schools, with three hundred pupils.

For the two principal schools they had spacious buildings, that would grace a New England town.