MDMD(2): Notes and Questions

[Dan Schmidt]

(originally mistakenly sent to the author instead of the list, sorry Harrison)

"Sherwood, Harrison" <hsherwood at btg.com> writes:

| >From: 	catherinep at juno.com
| 
| >This may or may not be the Skanderoon in question, but on an old map
| >drawn in fountain pen named: 
| >
| >Turkey in Asia
| 
| "Iskander" and variations is "Alexander" in various Levantine languages.
| Spelled _with_ the beginning "i" we find Iskenderun or Iskenderon,
| formerly Alexandretta, city & port S Turkey on Gulf of Iskenderun (inlet
| of the Mediterranean), pop. 69,382.
| 
| >By H. Moll, Geographer
|     ^^^^^^^
| Amusing: "B Flat" auf Deutsch.

Many apologies for picking nits, but actually "H moll" is the key of B
(natural) minor.

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