[45] This is possibly a part of the celebrated Comana Pontica, which is placed upon the Iris, the modern Tozzan Irmak.—See D’Anville’s Geogr. Ancienne 1768. tom. ii. p. 38.
The Christians of the country pointed out to Tavernier some excavations in this district, as the retreats of St. John Chrysostom. Tom. i. p. 13.
[46] St. John Chrysostom—possibly in his last exile and wanderings, A. D. 404-7. See Milner’s “History of the Church of Christ.” Vol. II. p. 291-3.
[47] “Chorbah, soup; Dolmah, meat-balls, in vine leaves.”
[48] It was made by the celebrated Kuprigli, the Grand Vizier. See Tavernier, Tom. I. p. 7.
[49] It is called the Agatch Degnis, or “Sea of Trees.” See its extent in Otter. Tom. II.
[50] The ancient Nicomedia.
[51] Sir William Ouseley’s Ebn Haukal, p. 12. p. 95.
[52] Stevens’s Faria y Sousa, vol. iii. p. 30, &c.
[53] Bruce’s Annals of the East India Company, vol. iii. p. 198.