The New York herald., 1870-07-29

] glens, wildernesses of shrubs, and on the ridges
of the mountains the trees stand out like the
| teeth Of fine comb.
| KERAsUNDE. -
| The next port at which the Russian, the Aus
trlan and French steamers stop is kerasunde, the
| ancient Ccrasus from whence Lucnus imported
| his cherries to Rome. 1t lies on the slope of a
solitary hill, which seems to have been shot for
ward apart from the wilderness of hills which sur
round it by some internal agency of the earth.
Its slopes become green long before the other hills
| in the neighborhood have assumed their spring
verdure, and on these, as at Samsoon the wealthy
| citizens have hedged their houses round with
| opulent groves OF the olive, lemon and orange.
The town has been awakened into life by the fre-
+ quent visits of the steamers plying along the
| coast and straggles outside its fortified wall along
| the gravel beach in many brown and white lines
overlapping tho sides of the h fronting east and
| west Deep rondiose gullies may be seen on the
eastern and western lanks through which the
streams murmur their way to the sea. Fishing
sloops are seen drawn up on the beach, with
myriad OF small boats. There are remains of
Genoese Notifications on iuttng knoll at the east
ern end.
TREBIzoND.
The next fort is Trebizond, which is seen on
clear day as you pass Cape Voros. 1t is
identified with the ancient Trapezus, in Porateas,
built by colony from Sudope. Its harbor went
under the name of Daphnus, and formed by
projecting rock, which had large cave be-
meath. On the summit of the rock stood tho
Acropolis. The ruins of CASTLE which are seen
now, are evidently Gen0ese. TrapeZus was famous
under the emperOrs Of the Eastern empires of
which 1t was for some time the magnificent capi-
tai There remains enough of the Trebizond Of
those days to give the casual traveller an idea of
what its strength was. The old town looks strong
and formidable even to-day. 1t is strongly stu
ated on rocky platform covering an area of
probably a square half mile to the west of the
bay, with deep ravines, artifcially widened, sepa.
rating it on the east and west sides from the hills
around. Its northern side faces the sea- where il
presents an upright frownng mass of rock topped
by castellated wall Of great strength. On the
south it must always have been weakest, where
there was only the wall unaided by natural obsta-
cles other than the unevenness peculiar to
rocky ground. The bridges spanning the ravines
on its eastern and western flank are gray and
hoary with age, and glimpse from the top of any
one Of them will crafty the raveller in search of
the romantic and picturesque. He will be able to
see traces of the castle described by Procopius as
having been built by Justnian, whose bitches
were hewn out of the solid rock This is the place
where Xenophon reached the sea with his 10 900
after the defeat and death of Cyrus at Cunaxa
The pass frequented now by the caravans to
Erzeroum must have been the one used by the
Greeks. Some fine old frescoes Of tho twelfth
century, portraits of Byzantine princes, mosaics,
and monument to Solomon, King of Georgia,
under canopy of stone, are shown the stranger in
the old Byzantine churches. Santa Sophia,
church now used as a mosque, mile west of the
city, is very fine relic Of tho early Christian
architecture.
Trcbizond is the principal Turkish port of the
Black Sea and would spring up into most i'm
| portant city did the Turkish government stir
| themselves into competing with the Russians.
| The facilities which Trebzond offers are great q
| quick communication into the interior of the far
| East of Asia Minor with the important town of
| Tabreez, In Persia; with Teheran, Isaphan and
Eeem Bagdad. The harb0r, now very insecure
80 much so that during the stormy term vessels
have to go to Platina, seven miles distant-mght
at small expense compared with the remunerative
commerce Of the place, be rendered safe. Com
merce is very brisk with Persia here. The camel
caravans constantly coming in are are sight to
see to the stranger unaccustomed to them The
| principal imports from Persia silk goods, raw
| silk, wool, gOldthread, arms and gold and silver
| fgree work. The total value of business done in
the port represents about 81 900, 600. The popu-
| laton of Trebizond is about 1000. England,
| France, Russia, Austria Prussia, Italy and Hol-
| land represented by Consuls. The United
| States have no representative here. The half
| dozen American travellers who have visited
| here within so many years have, however,
been always Hospitality received by the English
Consul. But it seems that the growing trade and
commerce Of Trebizond has attracted the atten-
ton of office-seekers In America, for our people
at Constantinople tell an amusing story of how
but short time ago a gentleman from America
came to Constantinople with an appointment of
consulship at Trebizond-with fees. He was very
much astonshed when the American Minister Mr..
Morris. told him that the city of Trebizond though
prosperous and likely in time to be great visited
by American ships but once In twenty years, and
that probably if he stayed there for ten years his
fees in the whole course of that time would not
amount to ten dollars. AS Mr.. Morris is O most
serious man and seldom jokes upon a subject
relating to business, our new Consul at Trebizond-
appointed, believe, by special favor-nstan'ly
made his resolve and said he would be Odd"
and that thrice over, before he would 20 to
Trebzond and, though he had been Off
cialy recognized, he Immediately returned
to America without seeing Trebizond
taking his exequatur with him as a SOU
venir of his short consulship. Gentlemen of
America, prominent for the honors of a Consul
with fees, had better study their geography the
columns of tho New YORK HERALD before apply
ing for or receiving their appointments.
BATOOM
Batoom is the next port after Trebizond, and
the uttermost destination of the steamers running
from Constantinople along the southern coast Of
the Black Sea. Passengers bound for the Cau-