Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-11

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Her servants, remembering the gypsy,
ana 'lfif6wins open The doors of Of th
tower, rushing frantically out declarins
that all was lost. Then the Prince o.
Persia rushed in, seized Mehar-Schegid
in his arms, sucked the wound in her
shoulder until he had extracted from il
all the venom left there by the asp.
The Sultan, when he heard ofthe Young
mans noble and interesting conduct,
declared that he should be his son-in-
law and the Prince of Persia made
Mehar-Schegid his wife, and lived with
her very happily for number of years
and had many children.
1t need scarcely be said that the
FIRST PAssER OF THE BosPHoRrs
from shore to shore was 10. transformed
into heifer through the amorous per-
secutiOns of Jupiter, and driven into.
the sea by the maddening attacks of a
gadhy. 1t has already been mentioned
that across this branch of the great his
torical and NEUROLOGICAL canal, which,
from Agamemnon's siege of Troy at
one end to Mohammed II.'s siege of
Constantinople at the other, has been
the scene of such wOrld-important con-
tiicts, the army of Darius crossed. The
only entry of a military force from the
Black Sea into the Bosphorus since the
time of Constantine Black Sea enc
mics, the pirates, occurred in 1888,
when the Russians after making eX-
plantations on the subject to the West
ern Powers, occupied the Turkish cap
ital in a friendly manner, with the view
of guarding it against the Sultan's re-
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The Russians kept their word in SO far
that they quilted Constantinople as
thev had promised to do. But services
of this kind are not performed for moth
ing and it ought not to be forgotten
that, although the Russians made no
sign of wishing to remain in CONSTANT
nopte, they took away with them, when
they left, a secret treaty, known as the
Treaty of Unkiar- Skelessi, by which
the Porte granted to Russia alone,
among the European Powers, the right
of passing with vessels of war from the
Black Sea TO the Mediterranean, and
from the Mediterranean to the Black
Sea. Besides being protected, or placed
in an admirable position for being pro-
tected, against approaches both from
the Mediterranean and from the Black
Sea, Constantinople was at one time
guarded against further advances by a
chain drawn across the mouth of its
harbor, the so-called Golden Horn"
The chain was supported at intervals
on piles, and the distance from point to
point along which it extended was
measured at 500 yards. No other city
in the world is so admirably situated as
InfNf -t do Il
keeping out war. Before the 1ntroduc-
ton of steam navigation its posi- ION
was even finer than it is now. For
every wind, from whatever quarter it
might blow, brought ships to its port
now from the Black Sea with the rich
produce of the East, now from the
t'White L Sea- or Mediterranean, with
the manufactures of the West. The
winding course of the Hellespont or
Dardanelles is variously estimated at
from As to so miles in length average
breadth miles breadth at narrowest
point. where the Ram with the Golden
Fleece, Leander, Xerxes, Alexander the
Great. and the Turkish invaders OF the
fourteenth century crossed, and where
Mohammed III. in the middle of the
fifteenth constructed his forts, towers
or castles, from 600 to 800 yards ,
breadth at point where Mohammed ~.
in 1896 constructed the new castles, four
and halt miles. The Sea of Marmora
is 120 miles long. The Bosphorus is
from sixteen to eighteen miles long ;
average breadth one mile and half;
breadth at narrowest point, where the
Greek Emperors and the first Sultans
constructed forts, where Darius built
his bridge of boats, and where the cru
saders embarked, 600 yards.