Kilid-bahr, the most important fortress on the European side of the Dardanelles, has 155 cannons;' the opposite fortress, sultani-kalessi, in Asia, has 196 cannons. The batteries on the European shores number 332 cannons and four mortars° those on the Asiatic coast have 814 cannon and four mortars: making, together, cannons and eight mortars. Rodesto is a ?ourishing commercial town, and the residence Of a Greek archbishop.