. Researches in the highlands of Turkey; including visits to mounts Ida, Athos, Olympus, and Pelion, to the Mirdite Albanians, and other remote tribes . take in Turkey, if leftto themselves, seems to be the division of the peninsulasouth of the Danube between these peoples, the northernand larger half becoming a Slavonic nation, whileThessaly and Epirus will be united to the kingdom ofGreece. If this should happen, Constantinople wouldalmost certainly be made a free port—as the Slaves haveno desire to possess it—and it is too important a positionto be left in the hands of any one people. The p
. Researches in the highlands of Turkey; including visits to mounts Ida, Athos, Olympus, and Pelion, to the Mirdite Albanians, and other remote tribes . take in Turkey, if leftto themselves, seems to be the division of the peninsulasouth of the Danube between these peoples, the northernand larger half becoming a Slavonic nation, whileThessaly and Epirus will be united to the kingdom ofGreece. If this should happen, Constantinople wouldalmost certainly be made a free port—as the Slaves haveno desire to possess it—and it is too important a positionto be left in the hands of any one people. The ports ofthis south Slavonic state would then be Belgrade on the Chap. XVII. Future Prospects of Turkey. 397 Danube, Salonica on the yEgean, and Ragusa or Anti-vari on the Adriatic. As the capital should enjoy acentral situation, and for the sake of safety should beremoved from the frontiers, historical associations as wellas advantageous position would seem to point either toSophia, the ancient Sardica, or to Nitzch, the formercapital of Servia. END OF VOL. I. PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET,AND CHARING Albemarle Street, March, 1869. NEW WORKS. REMINISCENCES OF ATHENS AND THE MOREA : Extracts from a Journal during Travels through Greece in 1839. Bythe late EARL OF CARNARVON. Map. Crown 8vo. CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRESS. A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford, by MONTAGUBURROWS, , Chichele Professor of Modem 8vo. A MEMOIR OF JOHN CONOLLY, Comprising an Account of the Improved Treatment of the Insane in this andother Countries. By SIR JAMES CLARK, Bart., CrownSvo. THE CONTINUITY OF SCRIPTURE, as declared by theTestimony of our Lord and of the Evangelists and WILLIAM PAGE, LORD HATHERLEY. Third Edition,with Additions. Post 8vo. 6j. NARRATIVE of the BRITISH MISSION to THEO-DORE, EMPEROR OF ABYSSINIA. With Notices of theCountry, Government, and People. ByHORMUZD RASSAM,first Assista
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