(34°) 
by Eunapzufm the life oi jEdeJius ^ who afcribes the feldome 
blowing of the i^^^^if^^ wind to the fitaation of the -mountains , 
whereas it is checked and overpowered by the exuberance of 
the vapours continually fent forth from the blach^ ^.nd^reat Sea, 
as the Greeks call it in comparifon of the Mediterranean, Vide 
ad finem Codini de origin, Cotijiantinopol. Edit. Parif. pag, 80. 
The Hellefpont is about forty miles in length, and at the Ca- 
ftlesof 6'^//^?/ Abydos the ftreight may be about three quar- 
ters of an Englifhmile over, orlefs. 
The length of the Propontis is about a hundred and fifty 
miles, both fliores may be feen in the middle o(/ it. In it are, 
Cy^icus^ an Ifland near the Afian ihore, to which it is joined by 
two bridges. It ftill retains its ancient name i^K^yJ^ and is the feat 
of a Bifhop, being-inhabited by a coafiderable number of Gr^^>^J*. 
Proconnefns, not far from the former \ naw, as for fome cen- 
turies pafl, called Af^r/wor^ , from the excellent quarries of 
Marble there founds the marmor Cy^enicum alfo being famous in 
the time oi ' Pliny. 
Besbycus^ now called hj xhtGreeJ^^i^^^'^tyvo or the good haven, 
not far from the entrance into the bay of Montanea to the 
North and by Eafl. The Turks call it hnramfe. 
There are feveral Iflands over againft thebay of Nicomedia , 
formerly called Sinus Ajlaceniis , according to Strabo^ about fix 
or feven leagues from Conjiantinople 
Prote^ fo called becaufe they approach fii fl to it, coming from 
f(?/2y/?^w^^';zo^/^i to the South of this Prenctpe and Py^^>, which I 
take to be the fame with Pyrgos , that lyes inmoft toward the 
bay: ChdlcitM^m modern Greek, Chalce or Chalets . Oxia and Platy 
to the North-wefl:. I have exprefTed the Turkijh names of the 
lefTer and uninhabited Iflands elfe where, which perchance were 
phantaftically impofed by fome Franks. 
The Seraglio is at the extreme point of the North-eafl Angle 
Conjiantinople ^ where formerly flood old Byzantium, within 
which towards the Haven is a ftately Kiosk^oxiwmmzz houie, 
from whence the Grand Signor ufually takes Barge, when he paf- 
^ V. Giiiium de Bofp. Thracio lib. iii.cap. U. <S<c., 
fes. 
