Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . the Princes Islands, the winding strait of theBosphorus with its bays and villages, appear with singular beauty from this spot;while the fragrance exhaled from the gardens, and the chant of the nightingale, afforda gratification to every sense. Beside it is a valley called Bulbul Dereci, or theVale of the Nightingale, where these birds abound, and their song is heard all a public functionary is deprived of his office, and suffered to retain his life, heretires to Scutari, and seeks solace in its soothing enjoyments
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . the Princes Islands, the winding strait of theBosphorus with its bays and villages, appear with singular beauty from this spot;while the fragrance exhaled from the gardens, and the chant of the nightingale, afforda gratification to every sense. Beside it is a valley called Bulbul Dereci, or theVale of the Nightingale, where these birds abound, and their song is heard all a public functionary is deprived of his office, and suffered to retain his life, heretires to Scutari, and seeks solace in its soothing enjoyments. The Persian ambas-sador and his suite, excluded, like the Franks, from Constantinople, here take up theirabode. With the exception of a few Jews, it is exclusively a Mohammedan city, andcontains eighty thousand Moslem inhabitants. It is distinguished by many edifices of piety or utility. Here the daughter ofSoliman the Magnificent erected a mosque to the memory of her father; and aninscription recording the circumstance, represents her as the gem of the world, and.
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