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priam's kingdom.
[chap. xiv.
detnding f0 the site of Ab ^ dos ' About two-thirds of the guns commanding the
straits. Straits of the Dardanelles are on moveable carriages, but the
remainder are solidly fixed on two huge blocks of wood nearly
level with the Hellespont. The calibre of these ponderous
guns varies from 18 inches to 3 feet in diameter; and, as
their muzzles project beyond the face of the work, they must
necessarily be loaded outside of the embrasures ; and they are,
in consequence, kept ready to fire at any thing coming within
the direct line. No vessel is permitted to pass except be
tween sun-rise and sun-set, when a Tezkereh, or pass, must
be obtained from the authorities for this purpose. The
castles and defences are intrusted to a Mir Miran, or
superior pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , who resides in the Asiatic castle, around
which is the town, containing about 9000 souls, and several
potteries; but, owing to the marshes westward, towards the
plains of Troy, it is at certain seasons very unhealthy.
Priam'g 0f Tlle whole of Mysia, if not a greater extent of territory,
kingdom. was subject to Priam, whose power is made by Achilles to
extend from the Hellespont and Lesbos to the extremity of
Phrygia. A colony appears to have passed into Mysia from
the banks of the Ister, 2 but the country was previously occu
pied by people from Lydia; 3 and hence the ancient Mysians
were considered to be Lydians by some, and Thracians bv
others. 4
Khodavendi-kar, the next tract, stretches eastward from
Bighah to Kodjah-ili, and from the shores of the Propontis
southward to Sultan-Om, beyond Olympus. It contains
the towns of Yeni-Shehr, Bazar-keui, and the district of
rusa; and, except that it includes a small portion of the
extremity of Mysia, it represents the western part of
Bithynia. 1
Kodjah-ili, the adjoining A'yanlik, has that of Boli and
the estuary of the Sakariyah on the east, Khodavendi-kar on
the west, and Sultan-Ofii on the south. It consists almost
Iliad, lib. XXIV., v. 544, 545.
2 Pliny, lib. V., c. xxxii.
Herodotus, lib. VII., c. Ixxiv.
4 Strabo, lib. XIL, p. 571.