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Title: Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 Walsh, R. (Robert), 1772-1852
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Publisher: London : Fisher, Son
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
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nkair, or Unkiar Iskelessi Entrance to the Bosphorus from the Black Sea Pass in the Balkan Mountains—by Haidhos Route through the Balkan Mountains—by Tatar-I TheBarbyses, or Sweet Waters of Europe Interior of a Turkish Caffinet The Village of Babec The Ruins of Ephesus ..... Greek Priests House near Yeni Kuey The Acropolis at Sardis .... Palais of Said Pasha .... The Remains of Hierapolis .... Philadelphia ..... Pass in the Balkan Mountains—Bulgarian Side Sultan Selims Palace at Scutari Mosque of Mahmoud II. at Tophana Caravansary at Guzel-Hissar, on the Meander Anadoli-Hissar, or Castle of Asia Outer Cooling-Room of the Bath near Psamatia Kapousi The Acropolis of Pergamus ..... The Triple Wall of ConstantinopleYere-Batan-Serai ...... Kiz-Koulasi—Leanders, or the Maidens TowerMosque of Shah-za-deh Djamesi .... Bazaar Vignette Title 7 Frontispiece 1 io tace j 912141618202223262831323537394041444548505256575759616365666970717374757677787981828384 Fisher, Son, & Co. Printers.
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DBA.WH &ENGRAWEDBY AT.K.X? FR1DL&Y S;SON. FISHER, SON, 8c C? LONDON fc PARIS- HISTORICAL SKETCH CONSTANTINOPLE. The first mercantile expedition undertaken by the Greeks, to a distant country, was thatto Colchis, the eastern extremity of the Black Sea, to bring back the allegorical goldenfleece. This distant and perilous voyage, could not fail, in that rude age, to excitethe imagination; so the poets have adorned its historical details with all the fasci-nations of fiction; the bold mariners who embarked in the ship Argo are dignifiedwith the qualities of heroes, and their adventures swelled into portentous and preter-natural events. The Symplegades were placed at the entrance of this dark sea, whichclosed upon and crushed the daring ships that presumed to penetrate into its mysteries,and so for ever shut out all access to strangers. But the intrepid sailors, whose namesare handed down to posterity for their extraordinary physical powers, overcame everydifficulty; and Jason, th

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