ther, when the fea is not navigable. We landed very wet from
the fait fpray, and half-ftarved with hunger. We had endeavoured,
when we flopped before, to make the crew underftand,
that our keen appetites required prefent gratification, but did
not fucceed. Some of them now made a fire on fliore, and
boiled the fowls, which we had provided. We fupped in a manner
fufflciently dilgufting, and retired to the boat, where the frefh
baHaft was our bed.
W e were under fail again, as foon as the morning dawned;
plying between Mount Mimas on the continent and the Spalma-
dore ifiands, called antiently Oenuflas. They belonged to the
Chians, who had refufed to fell them to the Phoceans. About
two we weathered the fouthern promontory of the gulf of Smyrna,
formerly called Acra Melsena, or Black Point. The Turkifh
name, which now prevails, fignifle-s nearly the fame. It is Kara-
bornu or Black Nofe.
Sm y r n a is fituated in the latitude of 38d. 40". at the end of
a long bay. As foon as we had gained the mouth o f this gulf,
the wind called Inbat began to waft us pleafantly along. This,
which is a Wefterly Wind, fets regularly in, during the hot
months, in the day-time j and is generally fucceeded by a land-
breeze in the night. The city was in view before its, when
evening came on, and the gale died away.
W e arrived at the Frank Scale, or key for Europeans; early
in'tbe morning, and beheld Smyrna, no longer remote; fpread-
ing on a fiope, the fummit of the hill crowned With a large fo-
litary caftle; domes and minarees, with cypreff-trees inter-
fperfed, filing above the houfes. On the fouth fide, where the
Armenians and Jews have ex ten five buryihg-grou'nds on flats
one above another, the furfa'ce of the acclivity appeare'd as covered
with white marble. The quarter affigned to the Pranks is
on the northfide j and by the Ihore, hot far from us, the Eng-
Tifh
lilh flag was hoifted. Soon after, the conful, then Antony Hayes
efquire, lent an Armenian, one of his drugomen or interpreters,
to be our guide to his houfe.
W e landed and palled through the Bezeften or Market, which
is “ in form like a ftreet, Ihutting up at each end, the Ihops
being little rooms with cupaloes leaded, and holes on the top
with glafs to let the light in We then entered the ftreet of
the Franks, which had a dirty kennel, was of a mean afpefl,
and fo narrow that we could fcarcely get by a camel laden with
charcoal. It was partly in ruins, a terrible fire having happened
in the preceding year; and fome of the confuls and merchants
were now rebuilding, or had recently finilhed their houfes,
which in general extend from the ftreet backward to the beach,
and have an area or court. The apartments are in the upper
llory, fpacious and handfome, with long galleries, and terraces,
open to the fea and the refrelhing Inbat. Beneath them are large
and fubftantial magazines for goods.
W e were received by the conful, and vifited by Mr. Lee, one
of the principal merchants, and by the fadtory and other gentlemen,
with great civility. As we were likely to make fome
ftay, we enquired for lodgings, but were told that the families,
which had been burned out, occupied all and were diftreffed for
room. The conful politely offered us a detached part of his
houfe, which confifts of a large quadrangle with a court behind
it. We were here much at our eafe, and clofe by an ample gallery,
where we might enjoy the grateful Inbat, with a full view
of the {hipping and of the long fair canal within Kara-bornu,
which is bordered by woody mountains and dulky olive-groves j
the furface of the water {hining, and fmooth j or ruffled by the
wind, and the waves coming toward Smyrna as it were in regular
progrefflon, and breaking on the beach.
1 Wheler.