[Footnote 84: From Constantinople to Trebizond, with a fair
wind, four or five days; from thence to Erzerom, five; to
Erivan, twelve; to Taurus, ten; in all, thirty-two. Such is
the Itinerary of Tavernier, (Voyages, tom. i. p. 12 - 56,)
who was perfectly conversant with the roads of Asia.
Tournefort, who travelled with a pacha, spent ten or twelve
days between Trebizond and Erzerom, (Voyage du Levant, tom.
iii. lettre xviii.;) and Chardin (Voyages, tom. i. p. 249 -
254) gives the more correct distance of fifty-three
parasangs, each of 5000 paces, (what paces?) between Erivan
and Tauris.]