TURKEY IN" ASIA. 



SITUATION AND EXTENT. 

 Miles. Degrees. 



Length 1120} , C 28 and 44 North latitude, 



Breadth 1010 $ Detween £ 2 6 and 45 East longitude. 



Containing 470,400 square miles. 



Boundaries.. ..Bounded by the Black Sea and Circassia on the 

 North ; by Persia on the East ; by Arabia and the Levant Sea on the 

 South; and by the Archipelago, the Hellespont, and Propontis, which 

 separate it from Europe, on the West. 



Divisions. Subdivisions. Chief Towns. 



f 1. Irac Arabia, or Chaldea Bassorah and Bagdad. 



J 2. Diarbeck,orMesopotamia Diarbeck, Orsa, Sec. 



T^. „„„ , ! 3. Curdistan, or Assyria Mou'sul and Betlis. 



1 he eastern pro- ,' t, '. A • -c nr 



• „ . * <^ 4 Turcomania, or Armenia Lrzerum and Van. 



| 5. Georgia, including Min-") Teflis, Armarchia, 8c 



{ grelia and Imaretta, and V Gonie ; Bursa, Nici, 



{_ part of Circassia - - J Smyrna, 8c Ephesus. 



Natolia or the f L Natolia Proper " " I Amasia ' Trapezon 



Lesser Asia on<! 2 ' Amasia ----- 5 a . nd Sinope. 



. ' j 3. Aladulia ... - Ajazzo and Marat. 



l_4. Caramania - - - - Satalia and Terrasso* 



f Aleppo, Scanderoon, 



East of the Le- CSyria,with Palestine, or the J Antioch, Damascus, 



vant Sea. (. Holy Land. ; Tyre, Sidon, Tripoli, 



l_ Jerusalem. 



Mountains... .These are famous in sacred as well as profane wri- 

 tings. The most remarkable are, Olympus, Taurus, and Anti-taurus; 

 Caucasus, and Ararat ; Lebanon, and Hermon. 



Rivers, lakes, mineral waters.. ..The same maybe observed of 

 the rivers, which are, the Euphrates, which rises in the mountains of 

 Armenia, and falls into the Persian Gulf, after a course of about 1400 

 English miles; the Tigris, which falls into the Euphrates about 60 

 miles to the north of Bassora, after a course of nearly 800 miles; the 

 Maeander, the Sarabat or ancient Hermus, the Orontes in Syria, and 

 the Jordan. 



The lake of Van, in Curdistan, is about 80 miles long and 40 broad. 

 The lake of Rackama, to the south of Hilla and the ancient Babylon, 

 is about 30 miles in length, and has a communication with the Eu- 

 phrates. The lake of Asphaltites, usually called the Dead Sea, in Pa- 

 lestine, into which the Jordan Sows, is about 50 miles in length and 

 12 in breadth. 



The mineral waters of Prusa or Byrsa, at the foot of Mount Olym- 

 pus, are in great estimation. The water smokes, and is so hot as to 

 scald the hand. There are several other hot and mineral springs in 

 different parts of Asiatic Turkey. 



