| Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 páginas
...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) - 1816 - 414 páginas
...shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convfcnievrt recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the 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... | |
| 1830 - 288 páginas
...periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of...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 páginas
...periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of...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 páginas
...periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of...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... | |
| William Schaw Lindsay - 1874 - 746 páginas
...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...vessels may rest their prows against the houses, while the sterns are floating on the water. From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbour this arm of... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1877 - 732 páginas
...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...the 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... | |
| William Jackson Brodribb - 1879 - 298 páginas
...periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of...the 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... | |
| Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 páginas
...distant countries into the secure and capacious port of Constantinople. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of...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... | |
| 1883 - 528 páginas
...As the vicissitudes of the tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the harbor allows goods to be landed on the quays without the...the houses while their sterns are floating in the water. From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbor, this arm of the Bos'phorus is more than seven... | |
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