TO CONSTANTINOPLE. ’ 
an hour, conveyed us from the Black Sea. Then, 
as we were musing upon the sudden discharge 
of such accumulated waters by so narrow an 
aqueduct, and meditating the causes which first 
produced the wonderful channel by which they 
are conveyed, we found ourselves to be trans- 
ported, as it were, into anew world. Scarcely 
had we time to admire the extraordinary beauty 
of the villages scattered up and down at the 
mouth of this Canal, when the palaces and 
gardens of the European and of Asiatic Turks, the 
villas of foreign ambassadors, mosques, minarets, 
mouldering towers, and the ivy-mantled walls 
of antient edifices, made their appearance. 
Among these we beheld an endless variety of 
objects, seeming to realize tales of enchantment: 
fountains, c cemeteries, hills, mountains, terraces, 
groves, quays, painted gondolas, and harbours, 
presented themselves to the eye in such a rapid 
succession, that, as one picture disappeared, it 
was succeeded by a second, more beautiful 
than the first 2 3 . To the pleasure thus afforded, 
(2) “ Bosphori dextrum latus longissimA oppidorum serie prsetexi- 
tur. Sinistrum non tarn a-difkiis oblcctationi dicatis, quam collibus 
fructiferis, hortisque Regiis collucet : quos singulos quid aliud esse 
dieam, quam Thessaliea ilia Tempe amccmssima, sed longfe amceniori, 
nisi ea Lapithse Centauri haud secus quam Hesperidum pomaria draco 
ille, custodirent, prociilque spectators arcerent.” Dousce Iter Con- 
stantinop. p. 21. L, Bat. 1600. 
