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R/gitf Honourable and my moft W irtby Lord, 



^W~*\ Eing given to underftand, That I have been reprefented unto your Lordfhip, 

 B^^r by feveral who bear me no good will, as a Perfon pofleffed with that Vani- 

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

 J^_^ quainted with divers Countreys and Languages, whereunto I am utterly a 

 ftranger : And perceiving that none of my Difcourfes have more expofcd mc 

 unto this Cenfure, than a pretended monftrous ralb Aflertion (but indeed a real Truth) 

 That I knew and had yifited all the Countreys furrounding the Blacf^znd Cajpian Seas: 

 I thought my felf neceffarily obliged in order unto my Vindication, to draw up a fhort 

 Account of all thofe Countreys, which do incompafs the forementioned Seas, moft of 

 which Places I have perfonally furveyed, and fear not any Reprehenfion or Confutati- 

 on, being refolvcd to declare nothing but what I fàw, or received from fuch who were 

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

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

 credit I lhall gain with your Lordmip, and all other confidering impartial Perfbns. 



I mall firft begin with the Black^Sea, as being that wherewith I was firft acquainted, 

 and near unto this moft famous City of Conftantinople, where your Lordfhip may eafily 

 learn, whether I am guilty of either falfhood or miftake -, and if I am found upon due 

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

 but the moft fevere and exemplary Punifhments which I fhould juftly merit, when 

 owing Life and Liberty unto your Lordfhips Bounty and Compaffion, I fhould inftead 

 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/^Sea on which 

 Conftantinople is fituated, and round the iàid Sea, until I return to Scodra, which is in 

 Afia oppolite thereunto. 



The firft Province is Komella -, the fécond Wallace ; the third Ackremen ; the fourth 

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

 jhowa ■•> the fixth is the Little Nagoy -, the feventh Circajfta \ the eighth Afajfa ■■> the 

 ninth is MingreVia ■> then Georgia -, and laftly Anatolia. All which Countreys are fub- 

 je&ed unto the îWr^i befides the great Defart, the Little Nagoy and Circafta. 



I fhall now mention the moft noted Places which I know from Fennam, which is 

 about the entrance into the Blacky Sea, unto the River of the Variant, fo to the Neiftre» 

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

 Blackjèez into the Teine Sea, and thence unto Afjhorva. 



As I faid, near the Entrance into the Black^Stz is Fennara, then Innatada, Mitfcma^ 

 Warna, Baljhick^ Mangalley, Conftancba, Karabarman, Keelley, Ackgemen, Ojjhackgrea) upon 

 the mouth of the Riyer of the Neppre. 



Now I (hall declare the Diftances of thefe Places from each other > the number of 

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

 to Inatada 80» miles ; to Mijfervra 90 ; to Warna IOO ; to Bal(hic\i6 ; to Mangalky 

 40 i to Conftancba 40 ; to Carabarman 4c j to Kelley 80 h to Acfyemen or Bealloborda. 

 i op h to Ofihakowa 80 -, in all 666 miles ; and from OfJhak$rea, which is in the mouth 

 of the Nepper, unto the River Don (or fanait) is 500 miles i the Voyage by Sea and 

 journeying by Land being much at one, viz. 1 18 6 miles, unlefs you go by Land unto 

 S mop, about Crim, and fo unto AJJbowa, where the Den falls into the Teine Sea (Pa~ 



