Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor
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Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor is by R. Walsh. The text says that the whole was now enclosed by three walls, including a triangular area, of which old Byzantium was the apex. The walls with their twenty-nine gates, the text says, remain without augmentation or diminution, still unaltered in shape or size, under all the vicissitudes of the city, for fifteen hundred years.
The text says that in the year 668, after it had stood for three centuries unmolested by strangers, the Saracens attempted to take it. A note sets out the mode pursued by the Turks, in which a quart of boiled milk is poured upon barm of beer and allowed to ferment. The text tells of people who, when no entreaty could prevail on them to remain behind the English garrison, were offered an asylum in the island of Corfu, and a compensation for the property they left behind.
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