Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . the Meles, flows back of the town; uponits banks Homer is said to have been, born. The countryaround Smyrna is very poorly cultivated, and large j)or-tions of it are entirely neglected. The city contains anumber of delightful gardens, in which the fig and orangegrow with great luxuriance. The next point visited by the travellers was Constan-tinople. The steamer rounded the Seraglio Point, andsweeping into the bold expanse which the Bosphorus forms023posite the city, dropped anchor off the mouth
Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . the Meles, flows back of the town; uponits banks Homer is said to have been, born. The countryaround Smyrna is very poorly cultivated, and large j)or-tions of it are entirely neglected. The city contains anumber of delightful gardens, in which the fig and orangegrow with great luxuriance. The next point visited by the travellers was Constan-tinople. The steamer rounded the Seraglio Point, andsweeping into the bold expanse which the Bosphorus forms023posite the city, dropped anchor off the mouth of theGolden Horn. The first step upon the shore reminds onethat he is in the East. The costume is oriental, the lan-guage has nothing in its syllables or sounds that resemblethe provengal tongues, and there appears to be an air ofluxurious enjoyment and repose inall around, that con-trasts strikingly with the anxious air of the busy pojoula-tions of the cities of Western Europe. Almost touching the water was a cafe, cooled by a foun-tain, and the umbrageous boughs of the wide-spreading t~ If -. Il liillriirirW HllPi^ AROUND THE WORLD. 343 platanus tree. Lounging on clivans were a number ofTurks, with white turbans and long beards, smoking thenargile, or water-^Dipe, and seeking nervous excitementin frequent draughts of coffee, or in the inhalation of theintoxicating fumes of hashish. Near by was a beautifulfountain, erected by some kind Turk who was seeking en-trance into the Mussulman heaven by doing good to man,and a mosque from the minarets of which the muezzin wascalling the faithful to prayer. There is no god but God,and Mohammed is His prophet, was the cry that was float-ing on the air as the travellers landed.
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