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place is much frequented with Earthquakes, Subject to
the Venetians, for which they pay a Certaine Tribute to
the Turke that hee would not molest them.
Scandarone or Allexandretta is the Sea port of
Alleppo1, some three dayes Journie distant. It is very
unwholsome by reason of the huge high hills hindringe
the approach of the Sunne Beames, untill nine or ten a
Clocke in the morning, lyeinge in a great Marsh full of
boggs, foggs and Froggs", the Topps of the Mountaines
continually covered with Snowe, aboundinge with wild
beasts, as Lyons, Wylde Boares, Jacalls, Porcupines, etc.
Of the latter, there was one killed, brought aboard, and
have as well of Flesh as of Corn, from Morea, being ten leagues
distant."
Struys, who visited Zante in 165S, remarks, Voyages and T?-avels,
p. 98, " Sante or Xante * * * on this Island is a City containing about
4000 Houses, or rather Cottages, without chimneys, that they say, is by
reason of frequent Earthquakes, of which they are in daily Jeopardy."
1 Scanderoon, where the Levant Company had a Consul, was the
outlet of the commerce of Aleppo. All the ships trading to the East
touched at Scanderoon before going on to Constantinople.
2 Compare Dallam's remarks on Scanderoon in 1599, Early
Voyages in the Levant, pp. 28, 30. Compare also News from
Aleppo (in 1628), p. 11, "Wee arrived in safety at Alexandretta
alias Scanderone, which we found full of the carcases of houses, not
one house in it. It having been a litle before sackt by the Turkish
Pyrats. The unwholesomest place in the world to live in, by reason
of the grosse fogges that both discend from the high mountaines,
and ascend from the moorish [marshy] valleys. The hills about it
are so high, that till ten of the clocke in the morning the Sunne
seldome or never peepeth over them."
Among Mundy's notes on the extracts from Blount's Voyage into
the Levant, most of which are given in Appendix A, is the following
in connection with Scanderoon:—" Within eight or ten leagues of
Alexandretta Sir Walter Rawleigh placeth the citty of Issus, where
Darius King of Persia was overthrowne by Alexander Major, his
great and pompous (although unwarlike) army routed, his Wife and
Children taken prisoners; see the battaile of Issus, Sir W. R. p. 177:
lib. 4 [p. 147 of ed. 1634]. In dicto Booke, lib. 4: p. 175 [p. 145 of
ed. 1634], mention is made of the straights of Cilicia where Alexander
passed into Persia, was questionless through some part of those
mighty high hills near Alexandretta, continually covered with snow,
and one overtopping another in height, being part of the Mountaine
Taurus, which reckned to begin heere, and the ridge of hills running
through divers countries, as India, are named Caucasus, beeing called
diversly according to the countries it passeth through ; in the Scripture
they are called Ararat."
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place is much frequented with Earthquakes, Subject to
the Venetians, for which they pay a Certaine Tribute to
the Turke that hee would not molest them.
Scandarone or Allexandretta is the Sea port of
Alleppo1, some three dayes Journie distant. It is very
unwholsome by reason of the huge high hills hindringe
the approach of the Sunne Beames, untill nine or ten a
Clocke in the morning, lyeinge in a great Marsh full of
boggs, foggs and Froggs", the Topps of the Mountaines
continually covered with Snowe, aboundinge with wild
beasts, as Lyons, Wylde Boares, Jacalls, Porcupines, etc.
Of the latter, there was one killed, brought aboard, and
have as well of Flesh as of Corn, from Morea, being ten leagues
distant."
Struys, who visited Zante in 165S, remarks, Voyages and T?-avels,
p. 98, " Sante or Xante * * * on this Island is a City containing about
4000 Houses, or rather Cottages, without chimneys, that they say, is by
reason of frequent Earthquakes, of which they are in daily Jeopardy."
1 Scanderoon, where the Levant Company had a Consul, was the
outlet of the commerce of Aleppo. All the ships trading to the East
touched at Scanderoon before going on to Constantinople.
2 Compare Dallam's remarks on Scanderoon in 1599, Early
Voyages in the Levant, pp. 28, 30. Compare also News from
Aleppo (in 1628), p. 11, "Wee arrived in safety at Alexandretta
alias Scanderone, which we found full of the carcases of houses, not
one house in it. It having been a litle before sackt by the Turkish
Pyrats. The unwholesomest place in the world to live in, by reason
of the grosse fogges that both discend from the high mountaines,
and ascend from the moorish [marshy] valleys. The hills about it
are so high, that till ten of the clocke in the morning the Sunne
seldome or never peepeth over them."
Among Mundy's notes on the extracts from Blount's Voyage into
the Levant, most of which are given in Appendix A, is the following
in connection with Scanderoon:—" Within eight or ten leagues of
Alexandretta Sir Walter Rawleigh placeth the citty of Issus, where
Darius King of Persia was overthrowne by Alexander Major, his
great and pompous (although unwarlike) army routed, his Wife and
Children taken prisoners; see the battaile of Issus, Sir W. R. p. 177:
lib. 4 [p. 147 of ed. 1634]. In dicto Booke, lib. 4: p. 175 [p. 145 of
ed. 1634], mention is made of the straights of Cilicia where Alexander
passed into Persia, was questionless through some part of those
mighty high hills near Alexandretta, continually covered with snow,
and one overtopping another in height, being part of the Mountaine
Taurus, which reckned to begin heere, and the ridge of hills running
through divers countries, as India, are named Caucasus, beeing called
diversly according to the countries it passeth through ; in the Scripture
they are called Ararat."
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