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Title: Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 Walsh, R. (Robert), 1772-1852
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Publisher: London : Fisher, Son
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
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, and once celebrated for vines and saffron,odoriferous shrubs, and the longevity of its inhabitants. These properties of nature itretains to this day, and travellers speak of its balmy air, and the rich fragrance that iswafted from its aromatic herbs. In it the celebrated Pactolus took its rise, and, pouringdown its auriferous streams, enriched the capital with such abundance of gold, thatmythologists accounted for it in their fanciful manner. The mountain has parted withall its auriferous particles, and the golden reservoir is exhausted, but the sands arestill of a ruddy hue, and justify the name of the Golden Pactolus. The splendidremains of Sardis are calculated to recall early impressions, and excite the most solemnreflections. Once the capital of the richest kingdom on earth, and her name associatedwith mighty events, she affords now no permanent habitation to any human being, whileher whole Christian population is comprised in two servants of a Mohammedan miller inthe vicinity.
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WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. 69 PALACE OF SAID PASHA. ON ONE OF THE RAPIDS OF THE BOSPIIORUS. The first objects that present themselves on ascending the Bosphorus, are the palacesof the several female members of the imperial family, hanging, as it were, over the water.They display long fronts, with coarse balconies of wood, having little of architecturalbeauty to recommend them. Each balcony is supported by sloping beams of timber, theupper projecting beyond the lower, so as to impend over the water, leaving a narrowquay as the public street beneath. The windows are closed up with more than Turkishjealousy. The lattices are dense and impervious to all view, leaving only one minuteaperture, to which the inmate of the harem applies her eye when she wishes to contem-plate the busy and living picture continually before her. The first of these palaces is that of the Asma Sultana, the sister of the present sultan.It is distinguished by its brazen doors, and by the sounds of music

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