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Excerpt from The Present State of the Morea, Called Anciently Peloponnesus: Together With a Description of the City of Athens, Islands of Zant, Strafades, and Serigo; With the Maps of Morea and Greece, and Several Cities; Also a True Prospect of the Grand Serraglio, or Imperial Palace of ConstantinopleHas the belt Harbour in all the Mom. It is about five Miles long, and three broad, having an Ifland ly ingcbefore it called Spafloria. Formerly there were two Entrances into the Harbour, but in the Year tg7t when the Chi/liars obtained the great Victory over the Turks before the Gulph of Lepanto, the Turks ha ving feveral Ships, and Gallies in the Harbour, and fearing the chri/iidns would come in and dellroy them, {hopped up the Entrance to the Welt of the Ifland (fo as only {mall Boats can now pals and built a very (trig Galile to the Eallward called New Navareene, w is'very well built, and commands the Entrance. It has about Forty Guns, which are molt towards the Sea. The Land to the South Bali lies high. To the Well end of the Harbour (lands Old Navarre formerly called Pyu) on a high Hill very fleet); the Walls are very much out of repair, great bl?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.