CONSTANTINOPLE AND ATHENS. BY THE REV. WALTER COLTON. Vagari, lustrare, discurrere, quivis potest, pauci, DUBLIN: PUBLISHED BY JAMES M'GLASHA'N, 21, D'OLIER STREET. MDCCCXLIX. CONTENTS. Departure from Smyrna. Condition on board an English yacht. Storm off Metelin. Loss of spars and provisions. Tenedos and the strand of Ilium. Beating up the Dardanelles. Scenery, towns, and fortifications of the shore. Passage of Leander and Janizary cavash. Fate of Hallet Effendi. Stratagem of Mahomet. Capture of Constantinople. The silver sofa. Palace of the Sultan. His wives, odalisques, guards, garden. The Sultan Visit to the royal Mosques. St. Sophia. Mosque of Achmet-of Sultan Solyman. Tomb of its founder. Mosque of Osman. Church and State. Mausoleums of Ottoman Princes. Antiqui- |