Litchfield enquirer., 1844-08-22

foreign ambassadors those of the former having
 large gateways of wood cut iDto various pretty and
 fantastic forms,-stars, crescents, musical and war
 like instruments, &c,-for illuminations on fetes and grand occasions. esga 6oissw44k 4ra f. . ge. 1 On the Asiatic side is the Giant Mountain, on 1 the summit of which is huge grave, twenty feet long, where according to tradition the Aead Only of the Giant is buried, and that on the top of the Mountain he used to sit to lave his feet in the Eos
 phorus The Turks pretend to ssS that this giant was none other than JOatmG theiBon of Num- and ! that it was on this mountain heacommanded the sun and moon to stand still is aplace of resort to Mahommedan pilgrims, exhibiting many votive off, ferings in the shape of rags and torn garments We had great desire to sail upon the waters of the Black Sea, but our guide and the Poatman were too timid to venture though it seemed very calm, and, we could only prevail upon them t go as far as the two forts that guard its entrance at the mouth of the Bosphorus, some three miles from the open sea, and we can therefore only say we have seen it. On our return by the Asiatic side [having ascended by the European we stopped, as Isaid in my last, at the "Valley of Heavenly Waters. 4 We met on our
 return number of caiques conveying the sultan's ladies from one Harem to another. accompanied by black Eunuchs with bastinades to Keep all unwel. come intruders away. One Of the most beautiful features of these water prospects is the great mum
 Der of wild birds that cover every sheet of water, the Bosphorus, Marmora, and the Golden Horn lit eraly teeng with beautiful gulls with their white bodies, brown wings and yellow peaks, and species of large blackbird and some smaller ones add to the variety, and are So tame only to move aside for the pretty caique floating lightly as themselves on these lovely waters. The Turks never permit
 gun to be fired among them. not only for Mear protection but for that of human life which would
 be much endangered were indiscriminate firing al. lowed so near the city as they are found. :. The dogsI have mentioned before, but they form so prominent feature amid the many novelties that surround us, that one cannot help allowing them more than would be elswhere their due share of at- tention The Turks are too humane to destroy them, and. though extremely filthy in their dress, have still great regard for cleanliness as never to ad- init them within their domicils.r Owing to this doubtful humanity, they are allowed to accumulate to an excess extremely disagreeable, for they and their filters left to take care of themselves and the older ones holding. as they do, the honorable post of city scavengers," and feeding on all kinds of refuse natter become some of them diseased and dreadfuly disgusting; while others drag after them their broken limb or limbs, which they have gained l by being trodden upon or run over while sleeping all E1aho fhau hnn1ld hav hoau As for the young ones, no one knows how they get on in the wor2d-you may see them lying in bun ches neglected and apparently deserted, and they must be wise 'spups" indeed, if they know their oDn mother, for in truth, they do not seem to have any. Thus you may see them, all sizes, lining ei- ther side of the street, each curled in heap with their noses wrapped up in their tails. and as soonas it is dark they make night hideous with their bay ing. bowling and barking. Each troop has its dis trict, and if any unfortunate dog strays out of his into another the whole fall foul of him, and he is l soon made to know his place and find it too But they are not they have been, as we were told by all old re ,ident, who said that when he first came here to reside, it was necessary to fee them by throwing them pieces of meat in order to pass safe l ly through them; but now they are, like their masters, broken in spirit and tame. Some of their battles are interesting and amusng as described by eye-witnesses, and it is astonishing what host of them (dogs) will collect in few minutes to see a fight and take part in it too.e But the metal most
 attractive to them is carcass of some animal left on the landing, like to the body of poor horse we saw, and which was half deyoured before it was quite cold and the next day nothing but the bones, white as if bleached by the sun, (so clean had they been licked,) remained to tell the honest tale and the horde that collected at this place .t s. .s
 s' To hold OCT the dead their carnival, .sai5 .ed Gorging and growing OCT carcass and limb," was really frightful. And the day we left I saw a man standing on bank above us in the midst of a countless pack catch up one of them by the tail, and turn round and round with him till my head grew giddy with his movements he put him down amid the yelling clan, and lashed them all around making them yell louder than ever. Now we'll throw physic to these dogs if you like, for they need it enough, and will relate the story of our landlady asshe told it to us, and which doubt not she has told to her many boarders; but as you are not among these fortunate beings perhaps you will like it even second hand. Madame Juisippini is Hydriote-that little isle, /" the Venice of the Egean, ," that made itself so conspicuous in the Greek Revolution being in fact the hot bed of the strife,a and which furnished SO many heroes to 'I Greece Among the most disinterested was Miau- h; a,, ,,,,cIa of Ma5ane Her father was a shiD-