The principal part of I. extends towards the north beyond the bazaar, and contains many large and excellent houses, both of Turkish agas and rich Greek merchants; some of these latter are so splendidly furnished and profusely adorned as to hasten the downfall of their masters by exciting the cupidity of the tyrant …
That part of the city which extends south of the castron, contains the superb palaces of the pasha and his two sons. In this distinct is the long street leading towards Arta, at one end of which live on immense quantity of gypsies…
The whole length of I. is rather more than 2 miles: its breadth varies at different points, but is no where more than one mile, unless the castron be taken into the measurement: Though its streets are very irregular, still one unbroken line of communication may be traced from each extremity. It is supposed to contain 6,000 hearths. In churches and public edifices it does not greatly abound;
But its mosques rising out of their cypress – groves and bearing aloft the triumphant crescent, give it an air of picturesque beauty…
During our walk we observed but few persons in any of the streets, except the bazaar, which was considerably crowded.
