Note 18 — Chapter XXXVII · ASIA MINOR, THE GRAVEYARD OF GREEK CITIES

This system of concentrating the business of the country at these three places creates the fictitious appearance of increased activity at these ports, at the expense of all the others. Macri, which formerly had fifteen thousand inhabitants, has now a miserable two thousand survivors. The same is also true of Adalia, formerly important, and now completely dead.