The Turk and his lost provinces : Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia . g like a cornu-copia for about three miles through the hills to a pointwhere it receives fresh water from a little bay is called the Golden Horn. Between theGolden Horn and the Sea of Marmora is a tongue ofland similar in size and shape to Manhattan Island,upon which New York is built, except that it is higherin the center, This ridge, or hogs back, rises aboutfive hundred feet above the water, and at intervals isbroken by gullies, several of them very wide and deep,—gashes that have been cut into the soil by wate
The Turk and his lost provinces : Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia . g like a cornu-copia for about three miles through the hills to a pointwhere it receives fresh water from a little bay is called the Golden Horn. Between theGolden Horn and the Sea of Marmora is a tongue ofland similar in size and shape to Manhattan Island,upon which New York is built, except that it is higherin the center, This ridge, or hogs back, rises aboutfive hundred feet above the water, and at intervals isbroken by gullies, several of them very wide and deep,—gashes that have been cut into the soil by ridge or tongue of land is occupied by the old cityof Stamboul, and upon the extreme point, correspond-ing to Battery Park, New York, is located the Seraglio,a group of palaces occupied by the Sultans before thenineteenth century. An imposing marble gate, bywhich the grounds are entered, is the ancient SublimePorte, and from it is derived the title by which theTurkish government is often referred to in historyand diplomatic discussions. The modern Sublime. THE CITY OF THE GRAND TURK 93 Porte is a still more imposing marble gate which leadsinto an inclosure where are situated the palace of thegrand vizier, the ministry of finance and other officialdepartments of the government. Upon the opposite side of the Bosphorus, situated toStamboul as Jersey City is to New York, is Scutari, acity of residences, schools, hospitals, military bar-racks, carpet factories and other manufacturing estab-lishments, with a population of about 50,000. It issurrounded by a group of fertile hills, which in thespring and summer are covered with brilliant foliage. Upon the opposite side of the Golden Horn a steephill, rising directly from the water, is occupied by thecity of Galata, corresponding to Brooklyn. Itshouses and shops are arranged in terraces along pre-cipitous slopes to a height of five hundred feet; and onthe other side of the crest, which slopes to the GoldenHorn, is the city of P
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