Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . .. WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. 57 ROUTE THROUGH THE BALKAN MOUNTAINS, BY TATAR-BAZAAR. The western pass, by Tatar-bazaar, presented in the Illustration, is not approachedby a chasm so singular and wild as that by Haidhos, but the passage on the summit isof a much more grand and romantic character. The distinct mountains rise intoimmense cones of splintered schist or granite, indented into clefts and fissures. Some-times masses of rock rise perpendicularly beside the traveller, between which the roadpasses, with s
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . .. WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. 57 ROUTE THROUGH THE BALKAN MOUNTAINS, BY TATAR-BAZAAR. The western pass, by Tatar-bazaar, presented in the Illustration, is not approachedby a chasm so singular and wild as that by Haidhos, but the passage on the summit isof a much more grand and romantic character. The distinct mountains rise intoimmense cones of splintered schist or granite, indented into clefts and fissures. Some-times masses of rock rise perpendicularly beside the traveller, between which the roadpasses, with sharp-pointed tops, of a pyramidal form, and outline so regular, as to make itdoubtful whether they are not artificial constructions. The road runs between them,and they stand like mountain sentinels placed to guard the pass. The delusion isincreased when he arrives in this wild and lofty region at the remains of a great archof Roman brick, which apparently was one of those pylse, or mountain-gates, raised, toguard against the incursions of the barbarous hordes from Dal
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