A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . mile. The depth of the waternear the shore is in most parts so considerable, that the Turkishline-of-battle ships sometimes touch the wooden wharfs, and bearaway their yards against the houses at the edge of the canal. The succeeding point, Kislar-Bornou, is conspicuous by theold castle built on the site of some fortresses of the Greek Em-perors, by Mahomet the Second, which, together with a fortresson the opposite shore, points out the exact part of the channelwhere
A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . mile. The depth of the waternear the shore is in most parts so considerable, that the Turkishline-of-battle ships sometimes touch the wooden wharfs, and bearaway their yards against the houses at the edge of the canal. The succeeding point, Kislar-Bornou, is conspicuous by theold castle built on the site of some fortresses of the Greek Em-perors, by Mahomet the Second, which, together with a fortresson the opposite shore, points out the exact part of the channelwhere the Persians, Goths, Latins, and Turks, successively passedthe Bosporus. There are no houses near the fortress, which isin the midst of a thick grove, rising to a considerable heighton the steep declivities of the impending hill. It is at this spotthat the Bosporus appears like a majestic river, winding betweenbanks as high and woody as those of the Wye, and not less livelyand cultivated than the borders of the Thames.—I have seen,says Gyllius, the banks of the Peneus, and the shady dell between ^.s^^sH•**^*^ ^^H ^^|. A (D(0>Ij©:N1B]Li ©F THE JARISSAIRIIES £m&nuFuhhshed !>v James Gnttiuyrn. 24-, Gv:ksfiip-Jtre<&l&12 LETTER XLV. 865 the Thessalian hills of Olympus and Ossa : I have seen also thegreen and fruitful borders of those streams which flow throughthe rugged mountains of the MedianTempes: but I have beheldnothing more lovely than the vale through which the Bosporusrolls its waters, adorned on either side by softly-swelling hills andgently-sinking dales, clothed with woods, vineyards, and gardens,and rich with a gay variety of shrubs, flowers, herbs, and fruit-trees*. Nearly opposite to Mahomets Tower, in the midst of a greenmeadow watered by two rivulets, and shaded with clumps of treeswhich give it the appearance of a park, stands a large country-seat, the property of the Grand Signior, but inhabited by theBostandge-Bashe, with a centre and wings like a
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