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42_48 Constantinople The passage of the Dardanelles was made about 11 o'clock in the morning. The passengers looked with great interest at the gloomy lowlands of Gallipoli where so many [Anzoes] lost their lives in the war. The shores grow bolder as we run in and narrow perceptibly until we reach the narrowest part, the [Hellesport], where the headlands are fortified, through these are low-lying. Then the channel enlarges until we are in the Sea of [Marmova]. We reach the Bosphorus about ten o'clock and anchor off Galata at Constantinople. The next morning the shores of Europe and [Asiolis] before us. The city of Constantinople lies on low |
42_49 Jan 26, 1926 hills which rise soon from the shores of the Busporus and the golden Horn. Everywhere we can see the minarets of [?] rising lightly high in the air. We go ashore at 8:15, reach the Palace Hotel and are met by Dr. Gates, President of Robert College, who takes us in his machine to Stamboul, the part of the city lying west of the Golden Horn which contains the larger number of mosques and the museum and various other public buildings. We go first to the Mosque of St. Sophia - the most remarkable of the world's buildings after the Parthenon. When one stands in St. Peters at Rome, one knows that he is in a very remarkable place. But the only way in |
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