Methinks, Duty and Piety should have been sufficient Motives to us to help our afflicted Brethren; but if we had been proof against those Incentives, so that neither brave nor praise-worthy Actions could unthaw our frozen Courage; yet Profit and Advantage, which are now the great Bias of the World, might have stirred us up to recover such opulent and commodious Countries from Infidels, and to possess them ourselves: But, on the contrary, we plow the Ocean, even as far as the _Indies_, and the very _Antipodes_, because there we get rich Prey and Spoil at a cheap Rate, even without Bloodshed, by imposing on the simple and uncrafty _Indians_. ’Tis true, we pretend the Conversion of the _Heathens_, but, if we go to the Root of the Matter, (to our Shame be it spoken) ’tis their Gold, not their Godliness, is the Gain we seek for. Our Ancestors carried it at quite another Rate, who did not, like trading Merchants, seek after those Places where there was most Wealth, but where there was greater Opportunity for noble and virtuous Atchievements; so that it was not Profit, but Honour, which put them upon hazardous and remote Expeditions: And when they came home, they were more laden with Glory than with Plunder. I speak this in your Ear; for others, perhaps, may think it a peculiar thing in me, to detract from the Manners of the present Age. But, let them think what they will, I see that the Arrow is drawn to the Head to destroy us; and I am afraid, that we, who would not fight for Glory, shall be forced to do it to save our Lives. But to return to _Pontus_. The _Turks_ call the _Euxine_, _Caradenis_, (i. e.) _The Black Sea_. It falls down thro’ narrow Streights into the _Thracian Bosphorus_, where its Waters are tossed up and down by many Vortices, Turnings, and Windings, occasioned by several Promontories jutting out into it; and thus, in one Day’s Passage, it descends to _Constantinople_, and from thence, almost by the like strait Passage, it breaks out into the _Propontis_. In the Middle of the Bay, where it makes its Influx into the _Bosphorus_, there is a Rock with an erected Pillar, in the Basis whereof is writ the Name of a certain _Roman_, called _Octavian_, (if my Memory fail not) in _Latin_ Letters.