Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . a. Here it was the Symplegades opened to invite, and closed to crush, thestranger who dared to intrude on these forbidden seas. Here it was the Greeksentered on the expanse of the Euxine, and disclosed new regions and new sources ofwealth to their enterprising countrymen: and here it was the disruptured mountains firstgave a passage to the waters of a vast internal ocean, which have continued ever sinceto pour down with impetuosity through the great chasm. As evidence of the first ofthese facts, the Cyanean rocks are still
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . a. Here it was the Symplegades opened to invite, and closed to crush, thestranger who dared to intrude on these forbidden seas. Here it was the Greeksentered on the expanse of the Euxine, and disclosed new regions and new sources ofwealth to their enterprising countrymen: and here it was the disruptured mountains firstgave a passage to the waters of a vast internal ocean, which have continued ever sinceto pour down with impetuosity through the great chasm. As evidence of the first ofthese facts, the Cyanean rocks are still seen, but now firmly fixed in immovablepositions; the one bound to the European, and the other to the Asiatic shore: asevidence of the last, the debris of a volcano are every where scattered about over a greatextent. Besides scoria and rocks in various states of calcination, columns of basalt liestrewed along both shores; and immediately beyond the bay of Cabacos on the Asiaticshore is a basaltic formation of great beauty and regularity, supporting the promontory of. WITH, THE SEVEN CHUKCHES OF ASIA MINOR. 53 Youm Bournou, with a colonnade as regular as that at Staffa in Scotland, or the GiantsCauseway in Ireland. If, as the Vulcanists say, these are undoubtedly the productionsof fire, here are still the proofs of that mighty rupture that formed the the awful convulsions connected with it, this entrance to the Bosphorus wascalled by the Greeks hpov, or the Sacred; it is now called by the Turks, Boghaz. Its present aspect presents a singular and beautiful prospect. The blue and limpidBosphorus, now expanding into bays, and now cooped between promontories, here sud-denly expands into an apparently interminable ocean. The promontories which swellout are clothed with a bright and permanent verdure, covered with villages, fortresses,and beacons, whose white walls and battlemented towers crown them with their turreteddiadems, and harmonize well with the bright tints of
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