Schauffler and Dwight some years before.

The city was visited again by Mr.Schauffler in July, 1847, and he urgently recommended occupying it as a Jewish station.

The number of rabbinical Jews residing there was estimated at thirty-five thousand, or about half of the whole population.

The number of their synagogues was fifty-six.

The Jews were diffused throughout the city, and not confined, as in Constantinople, to certain quarters.