“ Samsun exports cereals, tobacco and wool. Both exports and imports are about stationary, the Angora-railway having neutralized any tendency to rise. Amisus, which stood on a promontory about 11/2 m. N.W. of Samsun, was, next to Sinope, the most flourishing of the Greek settlements on the Euxine, and under the kings of Pontus it was a rich trading town. By the 1st century A.D. it had displaced Sinope as the N. port of the great trade route from Central Asia, and later it was one of the chief towns of the Comneni of Trebizond. There are still a few remains of the Greek settlement. ”