 | Charles Wilkinson - Greece - 1806 - 484 pages
...wafted into the secure and capacious port. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in these seas, the constant depth of the harbour allows goods...on the quays without the assistance of boats. And the sea of Marmora has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible store of the most exquisite fish, particularly... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...the bottom-, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convfcnievrt recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely...constant depth of the harbour allows goods to be landed orr the quays, without the assistance of boats; and it has been observed, that in many places the largest... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient...the assistance of boats; and it has been observed, thai in many places the largest vessels may rest their prows against the houses, while their sterns... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 830 pages
...a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient...on the quays without the assistance of boats ; and salubrity of the climate and thé richness of the soil ; Constantithe facility with which the fleet... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pages
...a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient...the houses while their sterns are floating in the water.18 From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbour this arm of the Bosphorus is more than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1867 - 744 pages
...bottom and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek 128 ADVANTAGES OF CONSTANTINOPLE. CHAP. X. their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes...houses while their sterns are floating in the water. From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbour this arm of the Bosporus is more than seven miles... | |
 | William Schaw Lindsay - Business & Economics - 1874 - 746 pages
...a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes of the tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the harbour allows goods to be landed... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1877 - 732 pages
...are of such constant depth that goods can be landed on the quays without the assistance of boats, and in many places the largest vessels may rest their...houses while their sterns are floating in the water. The entrance to the harbour is about five hundred yards broad, and sometimes a strong chain was drawn... | |
 | William Jackson Brodribb - 1879 - 298 pages
...a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient...houses, while their sterns are floating in the water. From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbour, this arm of the Bosporus is more than seven miles... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...every wind wafted from the most distant countries into the secure and capacious port of Constantinople. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in...largest vessels may rest their prows against the houses, whilst their sterns are floating in the water. The entrance is about five hundred yards broad, and... | |
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Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams, pours into the harbour a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes... 
