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Photo from Ejdwin A. Grosvenor 

 one; of the modern mosques in CONSTANTINOPLE, THE MOSOUE NOURI 

 OSMANIEH, COMPLETED IN I754 



'i7*i '^ remarkable that so many cities of first importance are situated on the same great 

 paralleL That narrow belt, hardly more than 90 miles in breadth, which encircles the globe 

 between 40 20' and 41° 50' in north latitude, includes Constantinople, Rome the Eternal City, 

 Madrid, the political and literary capital of Spain, and on this side the ocean the two metropo- 

 lises, unrivaled in the Western Hemisphere, New York and Chicago. One traveling directly 

 east from New York City Hall for a distance of 5,622 miles would pass through the southern 

 suburbs of Constantinople" (see page 459). 



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