Excerpt from A Voyage Into the Levant, Vol. 3: Perform'd by Command of the Late French King; Containing the Ancient and Modern State of the Islands of the Archipelago; As Also Constantinople, the Coasts of the Black-Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the Frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor
Navigation of the Black Sea fafe, any other Na tion befide the T ur/ts would train up artful Pilots, repair the Ports, build Moles, and erect good Magazines there but the Genius of the T urks is not turu'd this way at all. The Genocfi were not wanting to take thefe Precautions in the De clenfion of the Gregorian Empire, and chiefly in the 13th Century, when they kept all the Com merce of the Black Sea, after they had feiz'd the belt Places upon it. The Relicks of their Works are yet to be feen there, and efpecially of thofe about the Sea. Mabomet II. Drove them out en tirely and fince that time the T urks, who have.
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