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suming in it so many, that, with the destruction in the six previous days, swelled the total 
loss of lives to one hundred and forty thousand. In the thirteenth century it appears as the 
Argyron of Marco Polo. The city contained in Tournefort’s time (1700) eighteen 
thousand Turks, six thousand Armenians, and four hundred Greeks. The Jesuits reckoned 
eight thousand Armenians, and one hundred families of the Greeks. The present popu¬ 
lation is estimated by Gardanne at one hundred and thirty thousand, p. 21. In the 
former commerce of Asia Minor it was, “ le passage et le reposoir de toutes les marchan- 
u dises des hides.” Tournefort describes the influence of the French; and seems pleased 
that the Turks pay more regard to the recommendations of the King of France, than to 
those of the Mufti of Rome, 
Mama Khatoun , p. 327.]—A spot near Mama Khataun is suggested by Tournefort 
as the scene of the great battle between Mithridates and Pompey. 
jP. 356 .]—Geredeh is the Cams of the Romans. R. 
Canal from the Lake Sabanja, p. 360.]—The ancient Kings of Bithynia had left un¬ 
finished a canal from the Nicomedian Lake , the modern Sabanja. The younger Pliny, when 
Governor of the province, recommended the undertaking to Trajan. PLiN.Epist. x. 46. 
Trajan, in reply, desires him to take care that the lake be not exhausted fry letting its 
waters into the sea. Ep. 51. Pliny, Epist. 69, suggests sufficient in answer to prove 
that this danger might be obviated ; though his project, however practicable or profitable, 
was never realized. Trajan’s Letter, 70. At the end of sixteen centuries it was 
revived by the Grand Vizir, Kuprigli. It was destined to communicate with other 
rivers, and to open a water carriage into the centre of those immense forests, which in 
every age have supplied the arsenals of Constantinople. But the project was sacrificed to 
a timely bribe offered by those who had monopolized the conveyance of the timber by 
land; and Kuprigli, at the eve of the accomplishment, was deprived of the glory of 
completing that which Pliny and Trajan had projected in vain. 
