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them, except at Bom Noire (where there is a beach), the coast is rocky, 
and there is generally a heavy surf breaking. At all the places named from 
Bom Noire to Iffney there are many boats. About twenty-five years ago 
a vessel, supposed to be Spanish, was with great difficulty loaded at Bom 
Noire with wheat and beeswax. The vessel lay off Bom Noire several 
days before she was communicated with : at last a boat went to her, when 
one of the crew of the vessel went on shore and made presents to the chief, 
Ali Oh Hassan, of guns, swords, &c. After that, boats went off to her with 
cargo, but the master would not allow more than one boat at a time alongside, 
the cargo of which he paid for. The Moors are said to have had the intention 
of taking possession of the vessel ; but a Moor in one of the boats which went 
off with cargo informed the master of the vessel of what the Moors intended, 
and he immediately got his vessel under weigh, although the cargo had not 
been completed. From Iffney to the mouth of the river Assaka it is about 
half a day’s journey. At the mouth of the Assaka there is plenty of water, 
and the rise and fall are very little. About a day’s journey eastward of the 
river Assaka is the town of Wadnoon, which is the commencement of the 
Sahara, or Desert. From the mouth of the river Assaka to the mouth of 
the river Drah, which rises at a place called Ohivarran, an hour and a half’s 
journey in the interior above Wadnoon, it is a day and a half’s journey. 
The Drah at its mouth, and for an hour and a half’s journey up, cannot be 
forded at high water ; at low water there is not more than two feet of water : 
generally there is not much surf at the mouth. A short time ago the chief at 
Wadnoon, Sheik Beiruk, intended to have established a port at a place called 
El Bouida, in the province of Ezergien. El Bouida is a bay about three hours’ 
journey north of the mouth of the Drah. At El Bouida there are houses, 
which can be seen from the sea. The population in the district, said to be 
under Sheik Beiruk’s rule, is very large ; but of this population there are 
only about 8000 armed men, who are actually under his control : of these 
8000 about 2000 are horsemen. The property of the people at Wadnoon con- 
sists chiefly of horses and sheep, each inhabitant possessing about 20 camels 
and 100 sheep ; the wealthier inhabitants as many as 300 camels and 2000 
sheep each. Sheik Beiruk is said to be very wealthy, and trades much. 
9. Memoranda of a Visit to the Site of the Ruins of the ancient City of 
Sizicus in Asiatic Turkey. By E. Leahy, c.e. 1857. 
Communicated by Sir Roderick I. Murchison. 
Left Constantinople for Panorma, in my steamship Star on Saturday 
morning, 23rd May, at 9 o’clock a.m. Panorma is about 70 miles s.w. by w. 
from the Seraglio Point, and is situated on the Asiatic shore of the Sea of 
Marmora. Population about 4000, one half being Christian and the other 
half Mahometan. The place is remarkable chiefly for its proximity to the 
site of the ancient city of Sizicus, and for some quarries of handsome red 
marble found in an insulated deposit of limestone at the southern suburbs of 
the town. 
I was accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. Sarell, Mr. Philip Sarell, of the British 
Embassy, and the Greek Archbishop or “Despot” of Sizicus, and after a 
pleasant run of about nine hours we anchored opposite the town of Panorma 
at 6 o’clock p.m. 
Next day the whole population of the town turned out to welcome the 
(t Despot ” (the general name in the East for bishop), who had not seen his 
