# Life in Asiatic Turkey

Author: Davis, E. J. (Edwin John), 1827?-1901

Genre: Turkey -- Description and travel

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77918

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Life+in+Asiatic+Turkey+Davis&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Postal Service of the Coast of Syria—Acre, Sidon—A Resident’s Opinion as to Turkish Administration—Halet Pasha—Essaad Pasha—Tripoli—The Kadisha—Mosque—Coast Line and Nusairiyeh Mountains—Alexandretta—Causes of its Unhealthiness—Its Commercial Advantages—Constant changes of Governors—Want of means of Communication—Roads and Railroads could be easily constructed—Murder of a Missionary—Monuments of former British Residents—Want of Good Harbours—Mersina in 1812—Causes of its increase—Description of Town—Europeans do not thrive there—Why—Plain of Mersina—Mounds 1-15

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/35/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/29/index.md)
- [xli. 15); on this a man sits and is dragged by a pair of bullocks round](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/life-in-asiatic-turkey-77918/chapters/1/index.md)