Grand winter excursions to the Azores, Madeira, the Mediterranean and the Orient . GATE OF THE GALATA TOWER, CONSTANTINOPLE. Turkish Stamboul, lies on proach more and more, and soon the narrowest part of the strait is reached, guarded by two forts, Kilid-Bahr in Europe, and Chanak-Kalesi in Asia, thecastles of the Dardanelles parexcellence. The strait is famousin history for the passage ofXerxes and after him Alexander,by means of a bridge of is its name less widely knownfrom the story of Hero and Lean-der, and from Lord Byrons suc-cessful attempt to rival the an-cient
Grand winter excursions to the Azores, Madeira, the Mediterranean and the Orient . GATE OF THE GALATA TOWER, CONSTANTINOPLE. Turkish Stamboul, lies on proach more and more, and soon the narrowest part of the strait is reached, guarded by two forts, Kilid-Bahr in Europe, and Chanak-Kalesi in Asia, thecastles of the Dardanelles parexcellence. The strait is famousin history for the passage ofXerxes and after him Alexander,by means of a bridge of is its name less widely knownfrom the story of Hero and Lean-der, and from Lord Byrons suc-cessful attempt to rival the an-cient swimmer. Cape Abydos onthe right, which faces Sestos onthe European side, seems almostto close the strait, but soon theshores recede, the important townof Gallipoli is passed and the shipenters the sea of Marmara, theancient Propontis. Constantinople proper, thethe south side of the last and largest of the inlets which cut the western shore of the Bos- phorus. This inlet, the Golden Horn, forms a magnificent harbor, capable of floating over a thousand ships. The old city is connected by bridges with the
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