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Title: The universal geography : the earth and its inhabitants
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London : J.S. Virtue & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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arated by the archipelago of the Hundred Isles from theGulf of Edremid, and connected through its harbour with the isolated town ofMoskhinisia. After its destruction by the Turks in 1821 this place long remainedunoccupied; but it has been rebuilt by other Greek settlers, and is once moredistinguished for its enterprise and commercial activity. Nowhere else in AsiaMinor is the contrast more striking between the two rival races. Some 9 milessouth-east of Aivali recently stood the Turkish town of Ayasmat, whose inhabitantsmassacred their Aivaliot neighbours in 1821, and usurped their vineyards andolive-groves. Now Ayasmat is reduced to about twenty wretched hovels on theedge of a vast necropolis, while the Greeks of Aivali have increased threefold, andrepurchased their old landed property. The harbour having silted up, they have TEOY—PEEGAMUS—SAEDES—SMYENA. 317 excavated a channel over 12 feet deep, affording access to the vessels which heretake in cargoes of oil, wine, and grapes.
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Afilt ^- JlialLLlM/M , .Jill Mytilini, which carries on a large trade with Aivali and theother ports on the 818 SOUTH-WESTEEN ASIA. mainland, lies on the west side of Mytilini, or Lesbos, the famous island that gavebirth to Sappho, Alcseus, Terpander, Arion. The town is pleasantly situated underthe shelter of a low hill crowned with irregular mediaeval fortifications, which seemto have been constructed rather with a view to effect, so artistically disposed arethe walls and ramparts amid the surrounding vegetation. The delicately tintedhouses rise in a series of terraces along the slope, and are succeeded higher up byextensive olive-:groves. In Mytilini, till recently called Castro, from its castle, areconcentrated over a third of the inhabitants of Lesbos, nearly all Greeks, noted fortheir commercial enterprise. The harbour is tmfortunately accessible only to light Fig. 129.—Pergamus.Scale 1 : 80,000.

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