Copy 1, Volume 1

Travels in Greece and Turkey, undertaken by order of Louis XVI. And with the authority of the Ottoman court / by C.S. Sonnini ... Tr. from the French.

  • Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt
Date:
1801
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Credit: Travels in Greece and Turkey, undertaken by order of Louis XVI. And with the authority of the Ottoman court / by C.S. Sonnini ... Tr. from the French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion ae the ae ais. eis. ten Dias, to go to Dia. Boats convey thither goods on board the fhipping. | So great a reftraint has reduced to mott nothing the trade of the town of Canpra$ of that part of the ifland; and fhortly, as -~]I have faid, the harbour of this latter town will become equally impracticable, and hips, point of union, or place to take in their cargoes, but the rocky and uninhabited coaft of the Gulf of Supa. | The town of Cawnnpra, built on the fpot interfected by floping hills, which ‘fhare its fertility. Itis the Kwanpax of the Arabs; a word derived from candax, which, accord- ing to fome of the learned, fionifies entrench- ment. It is evident, from the buildings in Turks; ftraight fireets, regular fquares, houfes fubftantially conftruéted — every thing an- - nounces that it owes its exiftence to the | Venetians ; but every thing announces, at - the fame time, both the frightful ravages of are “