SCALA-NOVA, anciently Neapolis, called by the Turks Konshadase, is situated in a bay, on the slope of a hill, the houses rising one above another, intermixed with minarets and tall slender cypresses. "A street, through which we rode (says Dr Chandler†), was hung with goat-skins exposed to dry, dyed of a most lively red. At one of the fountains is an ancient cistern used as a cistern. The port was filled with small craft. Before it is an old fortress on a rock or islet frequented by gulls and sea-mews. By the water-side is a large and good khan, at which we passed a night on our return. This place belonged once to the Ephesians, who exchanged it with the Samians for a town in Caria."