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Their drefs confifts-of a pair of draw- 
ers, and a veft of blue-grey cloth. 
TI cannot fpeak as-to the population of 
this town, as I did not yenture to make 
any enquiries of the kind but I do not, 
think it amounts to more than fifteen 
thoufand fouls, Turks, Lazes, and Chrif- 
fians. 
Having fucceeded in obtaining the cer- 
tain geographical pohtion vf Trebizond, 
I prepared to depart, and I requefted.a 
fmall bark for my return, as this was the 
heft way to fee the coaft, and to take the 
bearings of different points. I therefore 
agreed with a Lazee owner to take me to 
Sinope. 
We embarked the rth of July for Pla- 
tana, there to await a favourable wind. 
‘All the larger thips of ‘Trebdizgnd anchor 
in this place. Platana is an open road, 
with good cee in a fandy bottom, 
three leagues from - Trebizond... The 
alpect | of the coaft is delightful ; j it is well 
enough cultivated, and broken with forefts. 
The neighbouring. mountains rifé in a 
{ugar-loaf form, which creates delicious 
vallies ; ; feveral of the country- houfes on 
the flope of thefe hills give them a very - 
agreeable alpeét. It was now harveft- 
time, and I have remarked that the cli- 
mate of the fouthern part’ of the Black | 
Sea is by no means fultry: an excellent 
thermometer which I took with me never . 
rofe higher than 81° Fah. on fliore, and 
in the mid& of fi summer I perceived fnow 
_on the mountains. 
We quitted Platana on the. 313th, ran- 
ging along the coaft, which is all the way 
covered with- wood: the mowntains are 
rugged, and the forefts on their fides ap- 
pear to he falling down into. the fea, or 
rather to be riing out of that element. 
Wre rowed along the coaft, and two hours 
before fun-fet we came ne Efky aie 
(Che old caftle). Our track was N..WV 
a quarter W. In the evening we an- 
chored near a village, from which I took 
the bearing of Cape disaibaae which was 
S. W. a quarter W, nine miles. 
On the 1zth, at feven in the morning, 
we came off Cape Kerelu, where there is 
a ruined cafile: From hence Cape Kara- 
boroun (Black Cape) bears 12 or 13 miles . 
-W. S.W. The weather hazy, a fog 
hanging, on the tops of the mountains, 
which are not very lofty, but Reep. From 
Cape Kerelu the coafi retires to the W. 
Ss. W. 
_ Atnoon, Tirvoli, a large town, bere 
four miles W: S.W. and Cape Kara-bo- 
roun S.W. a quarter W. nine miles. 
Here Cape Vona bears W. a quarter, 
Geography of the Black Sea, 
‘miles within the fhore. 
‘weftward, 
oan Cape Vona. 
[March 1, 
N.W, quarter N. at-leaft 30 miles. From 
Cape Joros, which is here in fight, the 
coat proceeds W. S.W. nearly, and ré- 
tires in a femicircular fweep to Vona. 
The bay appears to run from 18 to 20 
Clofe to Cape 
Kara-boroun I took the height of the fun 
by the refle&ting circle: the hour, com- 
pared with the time- piece, gave me 38° 
28" 6, difference in time between this 
pin and Conftantinople, and 36° 13° 
- for Paris. 
eae hence the coatt proceeds, fir lt 
and then turns northward to 
Cape per one of the moft important 
points for obfervation on the whole coaft, 
On the 16th we anchored in the weftern 
extremity of the road of Vena. . 
The latitude of Vona (taking the mean 
of feven obfervations) is 41° 6! a5 
The longitude,. eaft of Conflantinoples I 
found to be 35 32" 7, in time, or 8°. 
55 10" 
The road of Vona appears to afford 
good anchorage. 
had been lying there for a week, and had 
rode out the fame winds withowt driving. 
The hiftory of this frigate affords a 
curious inftance-of the knowledge which 
the Turks poffefs in navigation... She 
failed a weck before us from Conftanti- 
nople for. Sinope: but contrary winds 
‘having obliged her to ftand out to fea, the 
dott her, way in a ioe 
i 
She fell in by 
chance with a {mall veifel, whieh put her 
right on her .courfe, Hod fhe made the 
jJand at Samfoun, whence fhe found her 
way to Sinope. ‘This, however, was the 
belt part of her voyage, for on returning 
to Confiantinople a gale of wind carried 
her to the Crimea. Lofing her Greek 
Pile in the paflage, fhe thought fhe was 
on the right track, to Conftantinople, 
when, by conftant tacking, fhe made the 
mouths of the Phafis, in Georgia ; thence 
fhe arrived at the road of Vona, where the 
She had 
was obliged to, take a pilot. 
neither charts on board, nor any inftry- 
_ments to take altitudes. 
This puts me 
in mind of what Ifhak-bey faid to me at 
Conftantinople, on the fubjeé of the Black 
Sea navigation:—** The. Turks ufe no 
maps, either good or bad, fo that if you 
rectify them, it will be for our neignhowes 
and not for ourfelves.”” 
We weighed anchor, and left the road 
f Vona on the 23d, rowing, in order to 
In the evening we 
anchored in the road of Yaffoun. From 
Cape Yafloun (which is low, and fur- 
. rounded 
We here experienced. 
Teveral violent {qualls of wind. We met 
in this place with a Turkih frigate, which 
