The beautiful Alexandria was built on the slope of a mountain, sloping down to the sea and separated from the Idai ridge only by a deep valley; but on the other side there were cleared fields, irrigated by flowing waters. Nristan, near which I went ashore, is surrounded by a round mountain and covered with ancient ruins. I entered caves now inhabited by bats. And these caves are under the rubbed temple, still buried in its remains. In the ruins of the city one can easily recognize the stadium and the odeon. I saw some huge colonies: most of them lie on the stars, and they are sawed into millstones; they are still standing. Later he was all of the Korine Order. I read several surviving Towers above; three of them mention the name of Emperor Adran. A sandbank has formed in front of the large pier, which prevents communication with the sea; It's almost entirely overgrown with reeds. The small pier has completely dried up. When obfikh, you can see a few granite columns, where ships were probably tied up. In many marinas, salt is present in crystals on the surface of the shores. In the remaining walls of the city there are large cracks everywhere, and the battlements on them are broken; but these mountains extend for several miles, and being towers, still solid, and covered in places with quadrangular towers, many travelers thought that this was the ancient Troy, until they recognized the city and the real Throne. I don't. I had time to look around well and cannot describe in detail this once famous city. A lot of iselfdozateln drernosti described 22" of it, such as Graz Choiseble-Gouffier, Chevalier, Chateaubrlan, and finally Minya and Poujoula.
Alexandria-Groia early turned to the Christian world: in the fifth century we already see in her Bishop Silvanus, working miracles; but the city soon began to decline, and was probably completely ruined even before the fall of the Greek Empire. This is already clear because in Constantinople they have long used, for private and public buildings, materials taken from the demolished buildings here. The name Alexander-Groi was not yet completely forgotten in 389.
Having returned to the ship, I still tried to visit Tenedos, from which we stood at cannon range. Oetrov ’Tenedos has rocky mountains, but is extremely fertile. Its location, almost at the very mouth of the Hellespont, gives it great significance. Its pier provides a convenient shelter for ships sailing to Constantinople: they stop at the local roadstead in stormy times, when nasty winds do not allow them to enter the Dardanelles.
HALL Emperor Justinian ordered the construction of a store on Tenedosv for the storage of grain transported from Alexandri to Constantinople, but delayed by nasty winds or bad weather. In rebellious and unhappy times for the empire, Tenedos was many times a gathering of sea robbers, and Othman, having taken possession of it in 1802, found in it quite a few ships, which served him as a medium for the conquest of other islands of the Archipelago.
'The Tenedoseyu port was formerly closed by an embankment, but now the remains of it are visible; However, the Turks piled a bunch of stones on the old soil, which quite well covered the former embankment, holding back the strong rush of the waves. Tsfi mountains surround the pier. Toward the midday side5 a whole row of pierced flanks and an insignificant redoubt are visible. There is a threat against the port itself: the Veneshians, after a four-day siege, took possession of it in 1656, but soon abandoned it as completely incapable of defense. There are quite a lot of houses on 'Genedosv: they are all built at the foot and down the slope of the mountain. They will be separated from the sea by a dirty swamp, which was made up of sediment from the sea, and especially from the earth, carried away from the mountains by heavy rains. The inhabitants here are considered to be seven thousand Turks and four hundred Greeks. I went to the Greek Church: it is kept in order and quite nicely. There are very few antiquities here, and even those do not deserve much attention. I saw a tomb near the city, from which they made a kind of pool: water flows into it through a large hole made in the roof, and comes out into a tap made below. I think Chaidler was describing this.