Larissa, which is still known to the Greeks by its ancient name, is as formely the capital of Thesaly...
Very few of its ancient remains appear; though they may probably be some with the traveller, but which, with many other interesting relics that are scattered throughout Turkey, will be brought to light when this torpid and half-barbarous race of beings are expelled from the beautiful countries which they now degrade by their superstition and depress by their tyranny...
I was enable to obtain any certain information concerning its population; but calculating by the number of its mosques, which are 26, it probably must contain at least 2000 Mohamedans. The greater part of the inhabitants are Turks, some of whom are powerful and opulent. There are no mosques in Greece so grand as those of Larissa, and i wished to visit some of them, which no doubt contain rich anarbles, fragments and inscriptions. But the overbearing manner of the populace would not permit me to dratify my curiosity.
