Note 088 Though Tournefort (tom. iii. lettre xvii. p. 179) speaks of Trebizond as 'mal peuplee', Peyssonel, the latest and most accurate observer, can find 100,000 inhabitants ( Commerce de la Mer Noire, tom. ii. p. 72 - and, for the province, p. 53-90). Its prosperity and trade are perpetually disturbed by the factious quarrels of two 'odas' of Janizaries, in one of which 30,000 Lazi are commonly enrolled (Memoires de Tott, tom. iii. p. 16, 17)]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 68