HARBOUR OF INEADA, 
this port'. The interior of the country was 
described as being in a very dangerous state, 
especially the road leading to Adrianople ; 
owing, not altogether to the adherents of the 
rebel chief, Pasvan Oglou, but to the number 
of Turkish troops passing under various pre- 
tences, and to the banditti which more or less 
always infest this part of the country. Vessels 
frequenting this harbour, generally prefer the 
northern side of it ; where they find good 
anchorage, among gravel mixed with black 
sand 1 2 . It is only exposed to winds from the 
east, and south-east; and is sufficiently spacious 
to contain a fleet. Like the port of Odessa, 
however, it rather merits the appellation of a 
road for shipping, than of a harbour; as a 
heavy sea enters, when those winds blow to 
which it lies open. At the time of our arrival, 
there was hardly a single boat in the port : but, 
before we left it, we noticed five large merchant 
ships, besides upwards of thirty smaller Turkish 
vessels, all riding at anchor. The latter were 
stationed close to the shore on the north side : 
(1) Distances in Turkey, and almost all over the East, arc measured 
by time; that is to say, by the number of hours usually employed by 
a caravan upon its march ; and these are estimated according to the 
pace of a camel, which generally proceeds at the rate of three miles 
an hour. 
(2) See the Vignette to the next Chapter. 
