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VOYAGE FROM INEADA, 
CHAP. 
XI. 
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Return to 
the Cy- 
anean Isles. 
burning of fifty or an hundred houses is consi- 
dered of no moment by persons wh’o are not 
themselves the sufferers ; the buildings are soon 
supplied by others, constructed precisely after 
the plan and model of those which have been 
destroyed. 
On the following morning, a contrary wind 
and current still prevailing, notwithstanding 
the gale which had blown from the north during 
the night, we dispatched our interpreter to 
Constantinople, to inform the British Ambassador 
of our safe arrival; to provide lodgings; and 
also to bring our letters. In the mean time, 
having procured a large boat with a set of stout 
gondoliers, we were resolved to venture as far 
as the islands antiently called Cyanece, or Sym- 
plegades, lying off - the mouth of the Canal. The 
accurate Busbequius' confessed, that, in the few 
hours he spent upon the Black Sea, he could 
discern no traces of their existence: we had, 
however, in the preceding evening, seen enough 
of them to entertain great curiosity concerning 
their nature and situation, even in the transitory 
view afforded by means of our telescopes. Strabo 
correctly describes their number and situa- 
tion. “ The Cyanecr,” says he, “ in the mouth 
(l) Buslcquius' s Travels in Turkey , Epist. I, 
