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" ... into the secure and capacious port of Constantinople. The river Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams, pours into the harbour a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom and to invite the periodical shoals of... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Pągina 276
per Edward Gibbon - 1821
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A Tour Through Asia Minor and the Greek Islands: With an Account of the ...

Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 pągines
...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...
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The Female Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse: Selected ...

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pągines
...the bottom-, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convfcnievrt recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely...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...
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The English Instructor: Being a Collection of Pieces in Prose, Selected from ...

1830 - 288 pągines
...supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As...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...
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Encyclopędia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge ..., Volum 11

Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 830 pągines
...supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As...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...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes ..., Volum 2

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pągines
...supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As...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...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon - 1867 - 744 pągines
...bottom and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek 128 ADVANTAGES OF CONSTANTINOPLE. CHAP. X. their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes...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...
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History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce, Volum 1

William Schaw Lindsay - 1874 - 746 pągines
...periodical 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...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...
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History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce, Volum 1

William Schaw Lindsay - 1874 - 724 pągines
...supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical 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 the harbour allows goods to be landed...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volum 11

Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1877 - 732 pągines
...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...
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Constantinople, a sketch of its history, by W.J. Brodribb and W. Besant

William Jackson Brodribb - 1879 - 298 pągines
...supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As...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...
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