The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-05-20
resides. Across from Pera Is scutari, and
a few miles south OF it, on Marmora. Is the
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a few miles south OF It, on Marmora. is The
very ancient Chaicedon. shipping lies
thick along the Horn and the shores OF Bos.
phorus and Marmora. The relative position
of Stambonl, Pera, and Scutari Is not un.
like that OF Norfolk, Berkeley, and PORTS.
mouth; but the group on the Bosphorus has
two great advantages over that on the Eliza.
beth-one Ia that its waters are deeper and
lead in both directions to grent seas; the
other iD that the land rises in shnpely bills
to height Of several hundred feet above
the sea. You will agree with me that the
combination OF drainage and anchorage,
and the yet rarer combination OF accessi-
bility and defensibility, make a site
OF which the equal is nowhere else to be
found. OF the artificial improvements OF
the situation / cannot say much. "A mise
rable wooden bridge, built on floating cais-
sons, spans the Horn. "A substantial iron
structure OF the same kind was broken a
year ago in getting the Turkish fleet through
the draw, and has not yet been repaired.
From the bridge boats built in England for
the channel service run every half hour to
Scutari. There Is but one enterprise worth
commencing to the notice OF our city ia
thers: 1t is an Underground, inclined, dol-
ble-track railway, on which cars driven by a
stationary engine move up and down every
five minutes between Galata and Pera. It
IS the .propertyoi o private corporation, has
wrates, and is we'll patronized. When
youget your Grand Union Depot at Seven
taenfh and Franklin streets we shatl need
such: road from that point to the corner OF
Eighth and Broad streets.
LEGATIONS.
Among the finest buildings in CONSTANT
nople are those erected for their several
representatives, by the Governments Of Rus
sia, Germany, England, and Persia. That
built by the Shah is in Stamboul; the other
three occupy commanding sites, in spacious
gardens, on the ridge Of Pera. The Rus
sian is the finest-indeed, all over the East
we have seen fine new buildings erected by
Russia. They look like sultor's gifts Of
articles which he hopes to recover and so
turn twice to good account. The American
Minister, either in difference to the simplici-
ty which belts democratic institutions or
because Of the parsimony OF our Govern
ment, has to occupy hired house very far
inferior to the aristocratic mansions already
mentioned. Want Of time prevented me-
from paying my respects, as have hitherto
done in most Of the cities visited. There is,
however, one fine building in Stamboul that
by the eastern branch Of the American
Bible Society. Under the able management
Of DR.. Bliss, formerly Of New Haven, Bibles
are here published III nearly dozen
languages. All the work, type-founding
and setting, electrotyping, printing. and
binding, is done in this establishment, and
the books are all sold, some Of them at less
than cost, but never given away.
THE ISLES OF GREECE.
Since1 began this letter night has passed.
Our good ship Mendoza, Of the Messageries
Maritime line, homeward bound via Athens,
has crossed the Marmora, passed the Darda-
neles, run out from the greenish waters OF
Hellespont into the indescribable blue OF
Egean, and is now heading for
"The isles Of Greece,
Where burning Sappho loved and sung"
Since have looked upon Mitylene do
not wonder that she was so filed with the
spirit of poetry. The beauty OF air and sea,
island and adjacent mainland, is enchant-
ing, even to one who has lost more than half
his youthful susceptibility. My younger
friend T. is bubbiing over with poetry,
which he draws either from memory or from
his own excited imagination. You must
allow me to stop this writing and enjoy the
view on deck awhile.