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was afternoon before we arrived at, or , the first town in the Government of Moldavia. The Danube is an exceedingly large and deep river; and so broad, that in some places the banks are not seen from one side to the other, and are further apart than an arrow can be shot, or a sound heard. Be tween Matchin and Galats, on the left hand, is the Mahometan town and fortress, called, which was formerly in the Government of Wallachia, and was afterwards given up to the Moslems. It is the boundary of the Pashalik of Silistria on that side.

We landed at Galats on the afternoon of Monday, the seventeenth of Canon the second. From the first moment we entered the town, they sent to inform the Beg, by a Kalarash, or running messenger; and the Magistrates, and Priests, and the rest of the inhabitants, came to meet our Lord the Patriarch, and took him to the magnificent Church of St. Demetrius; which Vasili, the Beg, had newly built, and given to Athanasius, the Patalaron, Patriarch of Constantinople, whom we have just now mentioned. Upon his going to Constantinople a second time, and becoming Patriarch, the Beg was incensed against him, and gave the