. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. li, copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N. V. IN CONSTANTINOPLE heaven. Old Stamboul wraps itself in a black veiland withdraws where you may not follow. When I think of Constantinople as a whole, asseen, say, from the top of the Galata tower, set up bythe Genoese, I think of it as the most wonderful, themost beautiful, and the most superbly situated cityI ever have seen. It is an Eastern city of the sea, pierced by water atits heart, giving itself to the winds from Marmora,from the Golden Horn, from the Bosporus, from theBlack Sea. The sno
. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. li, copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N. V. IN CONSTANTINOPLE heaven. Old Stamboul wraps itself in a black veiland withdraws where you may not follow. When I think of Constantinople as a whole, asseen, say, from the top of the Galata tower, set up bythe Genoese, I think of it as the most wonderful, themost beautiful, and the most superbly situated cityI ever have seen. It is an Eastern city of the sea, pierced by water atits heart, giving itself to the winds from Marmora,from the Golden Horn, from the Bosporus, from theBlack Sea. The snows of Asia look upon it acrossthe blue waters of Marmora, where the lies desPrinces sleep in a flickering haze of gold. Stamboulclimbs, like Rome, to the summits of seven hills, andgazes over the great harbor, crowded with a forestof masts, echoing with sounds of the sea, to Galata,and to Pera on the height. And the Golden Hornnarrows to the sweet waters of Europe, but broad-ens toward Seraglio Point into the Bosporus, thatglorious highway of wa
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