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Title: Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Subjects: Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Publisher: London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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fortress is supposed to have been the old Berissa, and Comana Pontica of Strabo. If I may judge of the population of the town at its feetby the apparent extent, it must be very numerous; but no onecould, or would give me information on the subject; it not being improbable that the suspicion of my turbaned host of Koyla-Hissar extended hither, Tokat carries on a considerable trade in cups and other utensils of copper, its own manufacturing; there being mines in its immediate neighbourhood, and some ofa very high reputation, about fifty hours distant. They lie twenty hours from the city of Too-az, which gives its name to the district of Tokat, and where their joint pasha resides. These celebrated mines produce copper, lead, and silver, and have fifty furnaces constantly at work; indeed, they principally furnish the latter metal for the mint of Constantinople. I made a hasty sketch of the general appearance of Tokat, and its singular fortress rocks; but I was obliged to use my * See Plate LXXXVI.
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PLACE OF HENRY MARTYN'S DEATH. 703 pencil in a moment when totally unobserved, the jealousy with which a Frangy is regarded by the Turks increasing at every step towards the capital. At the north-eastern extremity of the city the river is crossed by a stone bridge of five arches; but aconvenience never allowed to passengers except at seasons of thaw and violent rains, when the stream is unfordable. It wasin this town our ever-memorable countryman, Henry Martyn closed his ministry on earth, his pilgrimage of service to a distant people, who, because they were men, he loved from afar as brothers, and dedicated the bloom of his life and faculties to recover from error. But his zeal was beyond the strength of a naturally delicate constitution ; yet Providence supported him, till, his commission being performed in the gift of the Holy Scriptures to the nations of the East in their own languages, exhausted nature sunk under the apostolic labour, and in this place he was called to the rest

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