The morning call., 1893-05-28
SOME PRETTY PROFILES

COnstantinople. Back OF it and above it on the
hills that overlook the city is Galara the main
European quarter. Northward stretches the
BOsphorus 30 the Black sea. with bold bluffs
dotted with palaces and suburbs on either side
for many miles,
Like Rome ConstantnOple proper is built on
seven hills, so there is little appearance of
hatnesS about it.
These are the main geographical and topo-
graphical features of one of the most pictur-
esque cities in the world. Among the hun
dredS of writers who have describe the scene
that here greets the eye is Henry NJ. Field. who
wrote From the Lakes Of Killarney TO the
Golden Horn" In this work he says:
"VeDice rising from the sea is not more
beautiful than ConsiantinOple when the morn
ing sun strikes on its domes and mInaret-
rising out of the groves OF dark green expresses
which mark the places where the Turks bury
their dead And when we entered the Bos-
phorus and, rounding Serag!io Point. anchored
at the mouth of the Golden Horn, we seemed
10 be indeed in the heart Of the Orient, where
the gorgeous east daZZles the traveller from the
west with Its gllttering splendors. The city
stands at the junction of two seas and two
continents, where Europe looks across the
BosphoruS TO Asia as New York looks across
the East River to Brooklyn. From the lofty
height of he Seraskier Tower one looks down
on such panorama as is not elsewhere on the
face of the earth. Far away stretches the
beautiful Sea OF Marmora, which comes
up 10 the very walls OF the city, On
the other side of Stamboul dividing
1t from Peri, is the Golden Horn, crowded with
ships, and In front is the Bosphorus, where the
whole Turkish navy rides at anchor and fleet
OF steamers and ships is passing, bearing the
grain of the Black sea to feed the nations Of
western Europe. Islanded amid ai these
waters are the different parts of one great
captal-a vast stretch of houses out of which
rise hundred dOmes and minarets."
"Constantinople bys sunrise, seen from the
ships deck" says H. w. Bellows, 'is exquis-
itely beautiful. The mosques lying in great
piles OF stone, light, lofty, cumulous, seem TO
make dozen or more great cenIers OF attrac-
tion, and yel TO combine heir spendors in
common effect. How nObly those hills rise
clothed with houses and towers and minaretS
and domes! They seem left as nature made
them, not one foot cut down or their great swells
altered, SO that the original sky line OF this
splen did panorama OF land and water remains
In all its peerless beauty. Great and teeming
with million people as Conslantinople is, built
over in great portions of it like wasp's nest,
II has large areas like the SeragliO and the
Sultan's palace grounds at the lower end anu
many hilsides that seem part of the bowl In
which the city Is placed, which are open. They
give an uncrowded and liberal air to the place
very unusual In Eastern towns, especially when
seen in a general view from the noble tower of
Gaata or from the opposite shore above Sou
tari. l could not but be struck with a certain
resemblance, amid many differences, in the
situation of COnstantin0ple and New York.
The Bosphorus eight miles long and a mile
broad, is the East River of Constanttnople. Its