Travels to and from Constantinople in the Years 1827 and 1828, Or, Personal Narrative of a Journey from Vienna, Through Hungary, Transylvania, Wallachia, Bulgaria, and Roumelia, to Constantinople: And from that City to the Capital of Austria, by the Dardanelles, Tenedos, the Plains of Troy, Smyrna, Napoli Di Romania, Athens, Egina, Poros, Cyprus, Syria, Alexandria, Malta, Sicily, Italy, Istria, Carniolia, and Styria, Bind 1H. Colburn, 1829 |
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Acropolis ancient Andreossi appearance Aqueduct arches Armenian Bairout beautiful boats Bosphorus brig Bucharest Burgaz Búyúk caique called Capitan Pasha Captain carriage castle columns Constantinople Consul costume Cyprus Dalling Danube Dardanelles delighted dined Divan Dolma Dolma Batchi domes dragoman European eyes feet Frank Galata gate Giaour Giurgevo Greek guns Hadjee Achmet hand handsome head height Hellespont hills horses hundred immense island khan kind kiosk ladies likewise looking marble Mehmet Effendi minarets morning mosque Mount mountains night Nizam Nizam Djedid o'clock passed Pera picturesque plain Porte postilion pretty Raleigh remains returned river road rode round ruins Scamander scenery Scutari Sea of Marmora seemed Seraglio Seringapatam ship shore Shumla side Simoïs sketch Smyrna spot stone Sultan Tartar temple Tenedos thing tomb towers town troops turban Turkish Turks village walked Wallachian walls women
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