| The port
of Smyrna as published by A. M. Myller, Peregrinus in Jerusalem (Fremdling
zu Jerusalem), 1735, engraved by J. Hiller. The engraver has noted the
word TELONIUM in the sea area below the port. This word comes from the
latin, meaning an excise duty paid by merchants, or a toll. From a book
by A. M. Myller recounting his travels from 1725 to 1727. Myller journeyed
from Rome to Jerusalem then on to Troy, Gallipoli and Constantinople.
From Constantinople he travelled to Egypt and then to Syria. Finally from
Syria he travelled to Malta and back to Rome. |
