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and perhaps even of the Genuffas without the gulf, may owe their
origin or increafe to the river Hennas.
A fter making the circuit of the illand, we fate down by
the Ifthmus to dine, when our attention was engaged by a large
company, landing at the feale or road of Vourla,. which is weR—
ward from the mole, and had in it fome fmall-craft, with a few
houfes and a mofque on the Chore. An irregular difcharge o f
guns and piftols followed,, in compliment* as our guide told us,
to the new Aga or governor, who was: then, arrived. In the mean
time the Inbat increafed very faft, as. ufual toward fujifet, and
with it the fwell of the fea. W® began to wilh, that we had
repaired the mole as, foon as our curiolity was gratified ; and to
apprehend, that without a fpqgdy removal, we might be detained
much longer on this defected Ipot than we Ihould like.
Our horfcs were ffiy of the furf, and one of ©ur company inclining
to© much to the left to avoid it got into deep water, but
foon recovered the track.
A mong the caufes, which have co-operated in bringing on
the general defolation of thefe coafbs, may he. numbered the outrages
fuffered from licentious pirates under a weak or bad government,
and the hoftilities committed by priyateers. The former
have in all ages infefted thefe leas; encouraged by the frequent
creeks and portlets ; where, they, may lie unnoticed, looking
out for their prey from, eminences, which command extea—
five views of the canals between the illands; or ready,, on the
approach of a fuperior force, to abandon, their veflels and efcape.
to the mountains. The Clazomenians, molefted, it is faid, by
Corfairs of Tino, retired from the fea to the continent, where
they were lefs liable to be furprifed. Many other places owe
their origin to the fame motives of apprehenfion and prudence as
Vourla.
C H A P .
C H A P . XXV.
O f the Kara-borniotes — Mount Mimas — Night — Arrive at
Erythree — 'The Jite — IJlets — Remains.
BEYOND Clazomene the peninfula becoming very mountainous,
with narrow and difficult palfes, affords many places of
refuge, inacceffible, or eafily defended. Hence the Kara-bor-
niotes, or inhabitants of the fouthern cape of the gulf, were
long infamous as pirates and robbers, and had the general character
of a very bad people. We were now told, that their manners
were changed, and their dilpofition lefs ferocious and inhuman
; that they attend to the culture of the vine and the management
of the filk-worm, and frequent the market of Smyrna
with the produce. We thought it prudent, however, to increafe
our guard and hire another janizary, intending to go to Erythrse,
now corruptly called Ritre.
We fet out from Vourla early in the morning, and in an hour,
after eroding a fmall promontory, came to the bottom of a deep
bay, which, with an illand in it, is almoft land-locked, lying
immediately within the cape. We then afeended a ridge of
mount Mimas; and palling a dream, entered on a rugged narrow
track between very lofty cliffs and by the fide of a water-
courfe frightfully fteep. We were engaged in this ftrait four
hours, our baggage-horfes falling, or being jammed with their
burthens, where the rocks projected. At length we arrived in
view of a plain deep-lunk among the hills, which furround it.
Before us was a gray ridge feen at Smyrna; and a little on the
left, a top of the illand Soio; behind us were the two white
conical fummits of moun t Corax called The Brothers, which ferve
as a fea-direCtion in navigating the gulf. We defeended to Cer-
hardam, a Turkilh village, where we alighted about three in
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