Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . so difficult, as to repel all attempts to climb them. Thechain may be said to consist of three branches; two lower ridges rising at each sideparallel to the great one. Tne intervening valleys are exceedingly beautiful: they formextensive sequestered tracts, shut out, as it were, from the rest of the world, andabounding in every production that the fecundity of nature could supply, or the mostelaborate industry produce. Some of these spots exhibit, in the wildness of the descent,all the beauties of a cultivated taste: pure s
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . so difficult, as to repel all attempts to climb them. Thechain may be said to consist of three branches; two lower ridges rising at each sideparallel to the great one. Tne intervening valleys are exceedingly beautiful: they formextensive sequestered tracts, shut out, as it were, from the rest of the world, andabounding in every production that the fecundity of nature could supply, or the mostelaborate industry produce. Some of these spots exhibit, in the wildness of the descent,all the beauties of a cultivated taste: pure streams of clear water rippling over pebbledbeds, skirted by copse-wood, and margined by swards of the richest grass, throughwhich the road winds like a gravel-walk in the young plantations of an English demesne;in other places, expanding into broad meadows filled with sheep and horned cattle, oxcorn-fields covered with growing grain in various stages. In the midst of these pastoralscenes are many villages of singular appearance; and cottages scattered about without. J: ??-, ;§§? ,?; | ??? ft Pi > 1. wi > »; - ? | ??i till WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. Hii any regularity or arrangement. They arc built of wicker-work. An oblong space inmarked out, circular at one end, and square at the other; round this area, wattles orshort poles are stuck in the ground, and between them, strong willows are interwoven,so as to form a large basket; on this, poles are laid for the roof, or some of the wattlesare left long enough to be bent for the purpose. The top is then thatched with straw,and the basket-work plastered with mud of a light grey colour. The entrance is at thesquare end, where the roof projects considerably, and is supported on pillars, the wholeexhibiting a pretty and elegant cottage, with a portico and colonnade in front. Thefloor is spread with thick striped woollen carpets, on which the family sit by day andsleep by night. In winter the fireplace is supplied w
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