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Its population at that time is said to have been upwards of 200,000. It has now declined to a minor town, with 5,000 inhabitants. Half-ruined fortification walls and towers of the time of Genueser remain, as well as a fine mosque, which has been turned into a Christian church by the Russians. The town lies upon a large bay of the Black Sea, on the declivity of barren hills.
The distance from Odessa to Constantinople amounts to 420 miles. The vessel was handsome and very clean, and the fare very moderate. All the travellers are compelled to take their meals with him, the poor deck passengers not excepted, who have often to pay him their last kopecs. It was at the height of its prosperity about the end of the fifteenth century, under the dominion of Genueser.
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