'The Expedition for the survey of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus. In four volumes. With fourteen maps and charts, and embellished with ninety-seven plates, besides numerous wood-cuts. Volume the first.' [‎326] (397/905)

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Buyukdereh.
Pishing in the
Bosphorus.
THE THRACIAN BOSPHORUS. [CHAP. XIV.
having been remodelled, they are now far inferior, and, in
fact, are scarcely tenable. Half a mile lower, the stream, in
making a bold sweep to the west and again south, forms,'on
the European side, the extensive bay of Buyukdereh. This
inlet usually contains a fleet of Turkish men-of-war and
numerous European merchant vessels, anchored opposite the
country palaces of the ambassadors, which adorn the shore
from hence to Therapia. A little below the latter situation
the current forms a deep bay on the Asiatic side, and sweeps
westward to Balti Liman, from whence it flows southward
between Rum-ih-hisar and Anaddli-hisar, where the width is
but 600 yards. 1 A little lower stands the most recent of the
numerous palaces belonging to the late Sultan, who, in oppo
sition to the superstitious feelings of the Turks, erected it on
the shores of Anadoli. Further onward, the coasts present a
succession of projections on one side, with corresponding in
dentations on the other; and the channel varies in width
from eOO or 700 yards to about 1000 yards, within a distance
of 5} miles to Leander's Tower, from the palace, or rather
from the extreme point on the Asiatic side; from whence to
yards'" 0156811 ' ^ ^ ^ 0f ^ Sera S lio ' it ^ 1640
The Bosphorus is remarkable for the quantity of red mul-
Itv ? TP' and sardillias S fOT ^ delicate luphari and
£ inW I ^ 'r , aS they paSS al0n S the sho ^ of
manner Th ^ ^ 8 ^ P eculiar
hX i I success depends upon a look-out man, who
stage aUO or 11 !2 Tl 0 1 ^ ^ SU PP orted b y « wooden
stage at 10 or 12 feet above the surface of the water, is thus
enabled by day and also at night, with the assistance of a
right light, to apprise the fishermen of the critical moment
to close their nets and haul them on shore with the fish
Numerous palaces, country houses, villages, and
ountams, interspersed with luxuriant flowers, shrubs' and