Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . commencement of the Greek revolution, this wharf was nearly fatal to of those fires which so constantly devastate the city, broke out here, and extendedto Tophana. Towards midnight, the city of Scutari was assailed by showers of balls,and it was instantly rumoured that the fire was caused by the Greeks, who hadseized on this depot, and were directing its cannon against different places. Thisnews was spread to Constantinople, and an immediate insurrection of the janissariestook place. They rushed down to the water t
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . commencement of the Greek revolution, this wharf was nearly fatal to of those fires which so constantly devastate the city, broke out here, and extendedto Tophana. Towards midnight, the city of Scutari was assailed by showers of balls,and it was instantly rumoured that the fire was caused by the Greeks, who hadseized on this depot, and were directing its cannon against different places. Thisnews was spread to Constantinople, and an immediate insurrection of the janissariestook place. They rushed down to the water to the number of 10,000, and were aboutto seize the caiques, and pass over to assist their countrymen. They had long waitedfor an opportunity or pretext for plundering the Greeks; and had this body of exas-perated, armed men rushed into a town on fire at midnight, it is probable that not aFrank or Greek would have been left alive in infidel Pera. Fortunately, their aga hadthe water-gates closed in time, and he persuaded them to wait till messengers were sent jM^^^M*. WITH, THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. J I over to ascertain the fact. They found that all the cannon on the wharf had been leftloaded with ball, which the Turks never thought of drawing, and when the fire reachedthem, they discharged their balls of themselves, which passed across the Bosphorus toScutari on the other side. Behind the Tophana is the Eski Djami, or old mosque, to distinguish it from theYeni Djami, or new one, lately erected by the present Sultan in this district; and onthe left, crowning the summit of the hill, are the heights of Pera, covered with theresidences of European ministers and merchants; whose houses, the finest in the city,command a magnificent view on all sides of the Bosphorus and Sea of edifices are situated in a street ascending the spine of a ridge, like the High-street of Edinburgh, and approached only by steep narrow passages, like the Wynds ofthat town. They are so p
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