[Footnote 40: It may not be useless to mark the distances
between Angora and the neighboring cities, by the journeys
of the caravans, each of twenty or twenty-five miles; to
Smyrna xx., to Kiotahia x., to Boursa x., to Caesarea,
viii., to Sinope x., to Nicomed a ix., to Constantinople
xii. or xiii., (see Tournefort, Voyage au Levant, tom. ii.
lettre xxi.)]