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Title: The book and the land
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Van Schoick, R(obert) W(illiam), 1843- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Eaton & Mains
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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it would have created a riotthroughout the city. 5 66 THE BOOK AND THE LAND Tuesday and Wednesday were spent invisiting the most noted points of interest;the Genoese Tower, overlooking all the city;the treasury, where millions in valuewould fail to pay the price of the jewels—one, the great emerald, is appraised at$5,000,000; the Mosque of Saint Sophia,founded as a Christian church, A. D. 502,by Emperor Justinian. Its dome 105 feetin diameter, height, 184 feet. Its mostexquisitely beautiful pillars were takenfrom the great Temple of Diana at Ephesus.Ten thousand men were employed in build-ing this mosque. Cost, $5,000,000. Wevisited the Hippodrome, Palace, Museum,bazaars, and Robert College. But thepeople, the dogs, and the pigeons interestedus more than the buildings. Scarcely awoman was to be seen in this city of onemillion population. The men, everywherein evidence, wore the red fez. We becameso weary seeing them and listening to theirunintelligible gabble it was really refresh-
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CONSTANTINOPLE, ETC. 69 ing to think we did not have to stay inConstantinople forever. The dogs, whomnobody owns, had the freedom of the city,as no one dares abuse or kill them. Ourguide said there were eighty thousand ofthem, but the delegates were convinced thatnumber was too small. Counting from al-most any point, fifty or more dogs could bereadily enumerated. The pigeons, too, aresacred. At one time the enemies of Mo-hammed pursued him and he took refugein a cave. They had supposed they sawhim enter the cave, but seeing two pigeonsbuilding their nest in its mouth theyconcluded he was not there and passedon, and he escaped. Hence pigeons flyand nest where they please in Constanti-nople. Even the magnificent Mosque ofSaint Sophia is numerously tenanted bythem. Thursday morning, March 31, we sailed upthe Bosporus to permit the nose of ourship to push into the Black Sea for a mile 70 THE BOOK AND THE LAND or two. When we passed Robert Collegeenjoying its large commanding site, with it

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