. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across y, on the southern coast of the Black Sea. It has a pop-ulation of about fifty thousand, and carries on an extensive commerce withPersia and the interior of Asiatic Turkey. Latterly its commerce has suf- SIGHTS IN TREBIZOND. 489 fered somewhat by the opening of the Caspian route from Russia to Per-sia, but it is still very large. Frank and Fred had two or three liours on shore at Trebizond, whichenabled them to look at the walls and gardens
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across y, on the southern coast of the Black Sea. It has a pop-ulation of about fifty thousand, and carries on an extensive commerce withPersia and the interior of Asiatic Turkey. Latterly its commerce has suf- SIGHTS IN TREBIZOND. 489 fered somewhat by the opening of the Caspian route from Russia to Per-sia, but it is still very large. Frank and Fred had two or three liours on shore at Trebizond, whichenabled them to look at the walls and gardens of this very ancient recorded in his note-book that Trebizond was the ancient Trapezi-us, and that it was a flourishing city at the time of Xenophons famous re-treat, which every college boy has read about in the Anabasis. It wascaptured by the Romans when they defeated Mithridates. The EmperorTrajan tried to improve the port by building a mole, and made the citythe capital of Cappadocian Pontus. The Trebizond of to-day consists of the old and new town, the formersurrounded by walls enclosing the citadel, and the latter without walls and. QUARANTINE HARBOR, TREBIZOND. extending back over the hills. It has tAvo harbors, both of them unsafe atcertain seasons of the year. A few millions of the many that Turkey hasspent in the purchase of cannon and iron-clad ships of war would make theport of Trebizond one of the best on the coast of the Black Sea 490 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. Great numbers of camels, pack-liorses, and oxen were receiving or dis-charging tlieir loads at the warehouses near tlie water-front. Fred ascer-tained on inquiry that there were no wagon-roads to Persia or the interiorof Asiatic Turkey, but that all merchandise was carried on the backs ofanimals. One authority says sixty thousand pack-horses, two thousand
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