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diftance. Nov. i^th, betimes in the morning we were 
a-thwart Negropont, and lailed between it and AvdroSj the 
Socca lies S. Vv'. and N. E. Nov. 17th, we lailed by Chios or 
SciOy which is very mountainous towards the middle; it is about 
4 leagues diftant from Cape Caraboroiou or the Cape of the 
Slack Nofcy as the lurkip word fignifies, and by the leameo 
called Cape yobber-no-id^ in their ufual way of corrupting names 5 
it is the Corin(£iim of the ancients, a promontory of the famous 
mountain Mimas, which runs along the fouthern fide of the bay 
of Smyrna. Nov. i8th, we got into the bay of Smyrna, and 
came to an anchor without the caftle, not far from St. jfacomos 
'Pointy as the Teamen call it, or rather San^iac Toint ; in the 
evening we heard a great howling of jackals upon the hills, 
1)ec. 8th, we took our leave of Smyrna, and the 20th we failed 
between Scio and Mitykne-., the aid, we pafifed by Lemnos, 
and were up with the iiland Tenedos, a ine champaign country, 
with only one hill towards the middle of it ; we faw tlie ruins of 
^roas at a diftance. The nd, we entred the Hdlefp07ir, which 
may be about 2 j leagues over ; the narroweft part of the Helle- 
fpont is at thole two caftles, called by the Chriftians the 'Darda- 
nelli, at which are fituated the towns Sejlos and Abydos, fo fa- 
mous in Greek pOetry. The 2 5d, we paffed by St. Stephanos 
^ointi where we had a full view of the S. E. angle of Conftan- 
tinople, which, being fituated upon leyeral hills to a mighty ad- 
vantage ; what with the cyprefs trees intermixed, and what with 
the gilded ipires of the mofques, yielded us a very agreeable and 
glorious prolpe^l ; pafling by the Seraglio Point, which we la- 
luted by a difcharge of feveral guns, we came to anchor in the 
mid-ftream between it and ^ophana. The zcTth, on St. Stephens 
day the ambaffador landed at Galata, and was received there by 
the Chiajis Bajloa, and the Vaivod of Galata, attended by the 
Janizaries and Chiaufes, and by them was conducted to his pa- 
lace^ and foon after, the Knimacam, or governour of Conftanti- 
nople, fent an officer to compliment him upon his ariival, the 
Grand Siguier being then at Larijfa in Thcjjaly. 
Being 'upon the coafts of Greece, about Aug. or Sept. 166 <) 
in the Jat. of 9 5° 3 ;', we found by our azimuth-compais, that we 
had wefterly variation there 5 deg. 22 min. 
The variety of colours of the iea-watcr at ditTerent times does^ 
chiefly depend upon the wind and weather, and the reflexion of 
light ; its ufual and naoft natural colour is a deep green, but in 
cloudy and rainy weather, the lurface of the lea appears blackifli; 
Ibmetimes the water is of a perfect azure colour, as we obierved 
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