ADABAZAR  , an important commercial

town in the Khoja Ili sanjak of Asia Minor, situated on the old military road from Constantinople to the east, and connected by a branch line with the Anatolian railway . Pop . 18,000 (Moslems, 10,000; Christians, 8000) . It was founded in 1540 and enlarged in 16o8 by the settlement in it of an Armenian colony . There are silk and Adair, one in 1695 and the other in 17o5 . In 1703 he published the first part of his Description of the Sea Coasts and Islands of Scotland, for the use of seamen . The second part never appeared . He is thought to have died in London about the end of 1722 . He must have lost a considerable amount of money in the execution of his work, and in 1723 some remuneration was made to his widow by the government . Some of his work is preserved in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh and in the King's Library of the British Museum, London .