Identifier: gri_33125009339611 (find matches)
Title: A description of the East, and some other countries
Year: 1743 (1740s)
Authors: Pococke, Richard, 1704-1765 Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author, by W. Bowyer : And sold by J. and P. Knapton, W. Innys, W. Meadows, G. Hawkins, S. Birt, T. Longman, C. Hitch, R. Dodsley, J. Nourse, and J. Rivington
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urfes yearly to the cap-tain bafliaw for the ifland.Government Though the abbot has all the power ; yet for the government of theanditade. people there are four vicardi for life, who are generally fucceeded bytheir fons. The inhabitants, who are all Chriftians, are mariners, orfliipwrights; for the ifland is a barren rock, and every thing is broughtfrom without. The only export is cotton flockings to Venice, to whichcity their fhips frequently go: They have a few gardens, and make alittle poor wine that will not keep above a month ; they have goodwater; it is a very healthy ifland, and there has been no plague in it forforty years paft, fo that one fees many old people ; for they are careful toguard againft infection, by making vefTels perform quarantine which comefrom infefted places. The people here are much civilized by the com-merce they have abroad ; they are immediately fubjed: to the patriarch ;and there are three hundred churches in the ifland. A DE S- Back ofFoldoutNot Imaged
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DESCRIPTION O F The E^ST, ^c. BOOK the Second.Of Asia Minor. CHAP. I. Of Asia Minor, and Ionia in general; and of the cityof Smyrna. THAT part of Afia, which has the Euxinc and Mediterranean feas Afu Minoron three fides of it, was called by the antients Afia Minor, andby the eafterns Natolia or Anatole, that is, the eaftern countrywith regard to Greece and the iflands. The weftern part of it was di-ftinguiflied by the name of Afia on this fide mount Taurus, which wasbounded to the eaft by the river Halys. The eaftern part, beyond, andabout mount Taurus confifted of Pontus, Cappadocia, Cilicia, Pamphy-ha, Lycia, Pifidia, Ifauria, and Lycaonia. On this fide of the Halysto the north was Paphlagonia, Galatia, and Bithynia ,- all the otherparts, which took in the whole the weftern coaft was Afia Proper ; inwhich were the two Phrygias, the two Myfias, jEolia, Lydia, Ionia,Caria, and Doris: Almoft all thefe were colonies of the Greeks, whoeftabliflied free cities here, at firft, in fome meaf

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