6a JOURNEY THROUGH THE SOUTH-WESTERN QUARTER

who computes it at forty ftadia, or eight Ruflian verfts ; which,hovvever, appears to have been greatly exaggerated in the lateftmaps.

1 (hall now proceed to defcribe fome of the moft remarkablebuildings, that are fcattered on the narrow part of this penin-fula, where it is confined by the two harbours before alludedto ; and which I had an opportunity of examining.

Two of the piincipal edifices occur contiguoufly to thefouthern Ihore. At a fhort diftance from the monaftery ofSt. George (of which 1 fhall prefently give a more particularaccount), and clofe to the lofty and rugged cape called Aya-Bnrun *, or the Sacred Promontory, there is one corner of thefhore, on its weftern iide, inteifected by two deep but fhortgulfs, with rocks proje&ing over the fea; one of which ispeculiarly terrific, and feparates this angular point from theAya-Burun. Its fuperficies, which is little more than fifteenfathoms long, and eleven in breadth, is inclofed by a wall fevenParis feet thick, which at firft proceeds in a direct line South-lbuth-eaft to the length of about feven fathoms; then forms anobtufe angle towards the South-eaft; and, after advancing fourfathoms, it reaches the large abyfs where a tower of fourarfhines fquare appears to have formerly ftood. On the wefternfide, we could difcover only the foundation of a floping wall,five fathoms in length from the right corner of the large walltowards the little gulf; but of the other eredtions there remain

* The name of this promontory, which confifts of a kind of marble, is compounded ofthe new Greek adjeftive Aja, and the Turkilh word Burun, denoting a cape. The wholeftony mafs terminates abruptly within the fea, and borders towards the Weft on theValley in which the village of Karani is fituated, and at prefent inhabited by Greeks.

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