Grand winter excursions to the Azores, Madeira, the Mediterranean and the Orient . ST. SOPHIA, DANCING DERVISHES, CONSTANTINOPLE. and crimes. Here it was wherethe Janissaries took place. The minarets, has the custody of the standard of the Mosque of Soliman, more a city in dimension than atemple, contains the inscription of Kani hissari. This mosque is higher even than , and its dome restson four wonderful columnsof rose granite. Besides,there is the light and cheer-ful Mosque of Mahamed,that of Bejazet, most ele-gant in form, that of Os-man, all of marble
Grand winter excursions to the Azores, Madeira, the Mediterranean and the Orient . ST. SOPHIA, DANCING DERVISHES, CONSTANTINOPLE. and crimes. Here it was wherethe Janissaries took place. The minarets, has the custody of the standard of the Mosque of Soliman, more a city in dimension than atemple, contains the inscription of Kani hissari. This mosque is higher even than , and its dome restson four wonderful columnsof rose granite. Besides,there is the light and cheer-ful Mosque of Mahamed,that of Bejazet, most ele-gant in form, that of Os-man, all of marble, and thatof Shah Zade with the mostgraceful minarets. The Hippodrome (Et-Meidan) is the centre andfocus of the citys life andthe theatre of its festivitiesthe fabulous hecatomb ofserpentine column in thecentre still bears the mark of the famous sabre-stroke of Ma-homet, the Conqueror. Other points of interest are the Museum of the Janissaries,the Seraglio Gardens, where the inclined plane may still beseen, by which faithless odalisques were rolled into the sea,and the Sublime Porte; the tower of the Seras
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