[Footnote 44: The perpetual decay and weakness of the
Turkish navy may be observed in Ricaut, (State of the
Ottoman Empire, p. 372 - 378,) Thevenot, (Voyages, P. i. p.
229 - 242, and Tott, (Memoires, tom. iii;) the last of whom
is always solicitous to amuse and amaze his reader]