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nences. which bound die view to the 
north, , 
The ester ¢alled. Fershana, or the 
naval arsenal, is pretty extensive, and 
stretches from. Galata-along the, chan- 
nel, to a considerable distance. The | 
principal part of the arsenal 1s seated on 
the spot where the harbour expands into 
a bay, and forms a port within a. port, 
A particular portion of this bay is ap- 
propriated to the larger vessels, and ano- 
ther to the smaller. . Besides the build- 
ipgs immediately iipiaan to the con- 
struction and equipment of the Turkish 
navy aid the gondolas of the Grand Sig- 
Dior, this part of Constantinople coutains 
: the hated of all the officers attached 
to the marie of the Porte. Lhe seamen 
and mannes, who are more licentions and : 
ungovernable thai the lowest dregs of 
the people, likewise reside here in a kind 
of barracks. 
Pr ceeding westward along the quay, 
we arrive at the suburb of Toy sana, which 
is to the military what Ters hee: ig to the 
naval force. Jts situation is still more 
agreeabie, for it stands upon unequal 
ground, but principally on an eminence, 
“close to the opening of the channel into 
the harbour, aud direcfly opposite to the 
sevaglio, which lies to the south. It ex- 
tenas westward nearly to the wharfs, 
to the east it looks towards Leander’s 
Tower and Skutari, and to the north it 
‘adjoins the suburb of PFondakh. 
Topana, together with Pera, on which 
it borders to the north-west, vad the still 
more distant aud lofty Galata, forms one 
the most magnificent amphitheatr es ima- 
ginable. Ail the three suburbs seem to 
form bat one whole, commencing upon 
the hilis, and descending to the sea- side. 
Exacily opposite to .the seraglio of 
‘Constantinople i is situated that of pe 
tari, with its extensive gardens and, ap 
partenances. Proceeding. from Skitani 
by land, and leaving this edifice on the 
right, we arrive on classic ground, which 
recals many paintul recollections to the 
mind of the antiquary. Here former! vy: 
stood Chalcedon, with its constantly ani- 
mated read, in which vessels from the 
north and from the south securely cast 
anchor, and filled the city with their rich 
cargoes. Here Grecian taste and inge- 
nuity had erected works for immortality, 
and here sett.edthe Peloponnesian colony, 
which, in so short a period, became so 
flourishing. Nothing now 1s left but the 
ruins of those works of antiquity and 
the Mussulinan who haughtily paces be- 
tween them, and looks lives n with | con- 
| Sketches of Constantinople, by Ke Wuchows 
-through. 
(June 1, 
tempt on superi or civ ieee ny is .conti- 
nually removing them, in order to deco- 
rate his. fountains and his mosques; his 
tombs and his monuments, with the re- 
lics of Grecian antiquity. 
In the mean time that the silver pop- 
“Jar, the walnut, the Cypress, and the aca- 
na seem to bathe themselves in the 
crystal current of a stream that runs be- 
tween rocks, ruins, and hills, to discharge 
rtself into the White. Sea, numerous 
groups of -houses present themselves to 
the eye. Their busy mhab tants remind 
us of the activity of the ancient Chaice- 
donians. On a nearer approach we Cis- 
cover that it.is the cultrnre of suk which 
here employs so many bands, and so ex- - 
guisitely harmonizes with the qelightrul 
climate, - 
But vo pencil can paint, no pen can 
describe the enchantng scene displayed 
to the mtoxieated eye, on ascending the 
hill to the left of the village on which 
siands the great light-house. The conti- 
nent of Asia here forms a cape which 
projects to a considerable distance into 
the sed, and is still denonunated the Cape 
of Ese elec At the foot of the light- 
house Sultan Soliman the Second erecied 
a pavilion, composed of several edifices, 
surrounded with beautiful, gardeus and 
plantations of trees, which is, called by | 
the Turks Fanari Rigas 
From. the, suramit of this_ hill we be- 
hold on one side the broad White Sea 
with its glistening waves, and in the dis- 
tance the immcuse city, # ith its principal 
suburbs, which cven at this distance pro- 
duce an incomparable effect. On the 
other side is a wide valley embellished 
with vayious eminences, which unrolds to 
the eye with a frediner that is to be 
found only in the East, all the beauties of 
nature which are peculiar to. so happy a 
climate. Inthe back ground, over thick 
-wngads, we discover mountains with nue 
Byerous villages on their sides, and here 
aid there buildings like fairy castles 
in the clouds. Beneath his feet the spec= | 
tator,has the most luxuriant vegetation, 
in its numberless tints and coloars, and 
yonder an ever animated and busy chan- 
nel. winding bke a broad high road 
a most delicious country, and 
gradually appearing narrower, till at 
dens Tae i is paplally lust to the view. 
urs 
ies entrance is six Tree en 
broad, becomes more and more con- 
tracted, and -at length terminates in a 
bending. toward .the north-north-west, in 
the road of ‘Keaghid Khaneh, or Les Eauz 
douces, 
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