inje;boli^ on the black sea 



Ineboli is the port of the rich agricultural and mohair district of Castambol. "Although 

 the Black Sea now washes the shores of four nations instead of one, it has retained much 

 of the character of a lake, and a Turkish one, from the fact that the Turks still control its 

 outlet. We have seen how Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Genoese, and Turks, one after 

 another, have throughout the centuries exercised that right of control simply by virtue of a 

 geographical accident" (see page 457). 



Photos by H. G. Dwight 



SAMSUN LIGHTERS 



The lighters of each Turkish port differ a little in picturesqueness. Those of Sarnsun 

 are the largest seen on the Black Sea coast, partly because steamers anchor farther offshore 

 than elsewhere and partly because the commerce of Samsun is the most important. Samsun 

 is the center of the tobacco industry in the Black Sea and the chief port for northern Asia 

 Minor. English and French companies were surveying for a harbor and for a railway to 

 tap the German Bagdad line when the war suspended their operations. 



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