The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . TriE Town and Bay of Varna.—From Lieutenant-colonel Andrews Views in Turkey and the Crimea. siege of Silistria, and at Varna they continuedinert, although exercising, by their neainiess tothe scene of active operations, a paialyzing influ-ence upon the Russians. Even this inaction,however, was accomjDanied with such melancholyas well as important consequences, that it formsan episode which cannot be dismissed with amere casual notice.
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . TriE Town and Bay of Varna.—From Lieutenant-colonel Andrews Views in Turkey and the Crimea. siege of Silistria, and at Varna they continuedinert, although exercising, by their neainiess tothe scene of active operations, a paialyzing influ-ence upon the Russians. Even this inaction,however, was accomjDanied with such melancholyas well as important consequences, that it formsan episode which cannot be dismissed with amere casual notice. Varna, situated on the shores of the BlackSea, in the province of Bulgaria, is a fortifiedtown and seaport, 160 miles to the north-west ofConstantinople, and contains about 14,000 inha-bitants. Its site is a gentle height on the north-west side of a semicircular bay formed by tworocky promontories; and, like many other townswhich have been for a length of time in possessionof the Tuiks, it exhibits the usual melancholysymptoms of neglect and decay; for it is butslightly fortified, its houses, which are chiefly ofwood, are irregularly placed, and it has
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