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of that chain of mountains of which Garsarus is chap. 
VII. 
the summit. This cape presents a high and bold > 
cUff, on whose steep acclivity the little town of 
Baha appears, as though stuck within a nook^ 
It is famous for the manufacture of knives and 
poignards : their blades are distinguished in 
Turkey by the name of Baha Leek.s. Afterwards, 
crossing- the mouth of the Gulph, we passed 
round the western point of the Island of Mity- 
lene, antiently called the Sigrian Promontory. 
It is uncertain at what time the island chansfed 
its antient name of Lesbos for that which it now 
bears ; but Eustathius says it was so called from 
Mhylene, the capital town. Its situation, with 
regard to the Adramyttian Gulph, is erroneously 
delineated in maps and charts : some of these 
place it at a distance in the JEgean Sea^. 
We had surveyed the whole of this island, Leshos. 
with considerable interest, from the Peak of 
Gargarus; and now, as the shades of evening were 
beginning to conceal its undulating territory, 
(2) A verj- accurate view of it is engraved in Sir TVilliam GelCs 
" Topography of Troy," p. 21. from his own drawing. The place was 
ealled Buba, from a Dervish {Baha) buried there, " who always gave 
the Turks intelligence when any rovers were in the neighbouring seas." 
Egmont and Heytnan's Travels, vol.1, p. 162. 
(3) Our geographical documents of the /Archipelago are a disgrace to 
the age ; the very best of them being false in their positions of latitude, 
and in the respective bearings of the different islands, as well as remark- 
able for their unaccountable omissions. 
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