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Right Honourable and my btqfl Worthy Lord, 



Eing given to underitand, That I have been reprefented wnto your Lordfhip, 

 by feveral who hear me no good will, as a Perfon poffefTed with that Vani- 

 ty, whiqh ordinarily prevails among Travellers, of affirming I was well ac- 

 quainted with divers Conn treys and Languages, whereunto I am utterly a 

 ftraoger : And perceiving that none" of my Difcourfes have more expofed me 

 unto this Ccnfure, than a pretended monitrous ram Aflertion (but indeed a real Truth) 

 That I knew and had vifitcd all theCountreys furrounding the Blac^nd Cajpian Seas: 

 I thought my fclf neceffarily obliged in order unto my Vindication, to draw up a (horc 

 Account of all thofc Countreys, which do incompafs the forcmentioned Seas, molt of 

 which Places 1 have perfonally furveyed, and fear not any Reprehenlion or Confutati- 

 on, being refolved to declare nothing but what I faw, or received from fuch who were 

 beft abL to give me full and faithful Information. And I am well allured, That the 

 more itrid and judicious Enquiry is made into this my Report, the more favour and 

 credit I ("hall gain with your Lordfhip, and all other confidering impartial Perfons. 



I (hall firft begin with the Blacl^Sea, as being that wherewith I was firft acquainted, 

 and near unto this mod famous City of Conftantinople, where your Lordlhip may eatily 

 learn, whether I am guilty of either falftiood or miitake ; and if I am found upon due 

 Enquiry to declare any manifeit Untruth, I deferve not only unparalleld Reproaches, 

 but the moft fevere and exemplary Puniftiments which I Should juttly merit, when 

 owing Life and Liberty unto your Lordihips Bounty and Compaflion, I (hould initead 

 of a grateful Acknowledgment, prefent your Honour with a heap of impudent Fal- 

 fities. 



I will begin my Relation or Peregrination, from that fide of the B/ucj^Sea on which 

 Constantinople is fituated, and round the (aid Sea, until I return to Scodra, which is in 

 Afu oppolite thereunto. 



The firft Province is RomeVa i the fecond IFatiakie •, the tliird Acumen i the fourth 

 Crim i the fifth the great Defart of Ingul and Vngule, which is between Crim and Af- 

 jljorva \ the fixth is the Little Nagoy •> the feventh Circafta •, the eighth Abaffa j the 

 ninth is MingreVia \ then Georgia ; and lately Anatolia. All which Countreys are fub- 

 je<5tcd unto the ?*rkj> betides the great Defart, the Little Nagoy and Circafta. 



I (hall now mention the molt noted Places which I know from Fennars, which k 

 about the entrance into the Blacl^ Sea, unto the River of the Vanaw, fo to the Neijire^ 

 from thence unto the Neppcr, Co round about Crim, unto the G«//that goeth from the 

 £/.;c^Sea into the Teine Sea, and thence unto Afjhowa. 



As I faid, «ear the Entrance into the BlackJSz* is Fennara y then Jnnatada, Mijfewra, 

 Warna, BalfjicJ^-, Mangallcy, Conjiancba, Karabarman, Keelley, Ackfemen, OJJhach^vpa^ upon 

 the mouth of the River of the Neppre. 



Now I (ball declare the Diftances of thefe Places from each other } the number of 

 miles being the fpace betwixt what forgoes and immediately enfucs. From Finnara 

 to Inatada 80 miles ', to Miffevera 90 \ to Warn* 1 00 > to Bal(hicl^i6 i to Mangalley 

 40 '•> to Conftancba 40 => to Caraharman 40 i to Kelley 80 ? to Ach^emen or Bealloborda 

 100 •, to Ofjhakgrva 80 i in all 666 miles i and from OJfyakgrva, which is in the mouth 

 of the Nepper, unto the River Von (or TSanati) is 500 miles •, the Voyage by Sea and 

 journeying by Land being much at one, viz. 1 186 miles, unlefs you go by Land unto 

 Frccop, about Crim, and fo unto Affbowa, where the Von falls into the Jeim Sea {Fa- 



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