The Antiquities Of Constantinople

THE ANTIQUITIES OP CONSTANTINOPLE. adduced. Our curiosity has often been excited by the Cyclopean fortifications of Greece, Italy, and Spain. But these were rude structures, for the most part, if not altogether, without towers, erected by semi-barbarous races, and connected with poetry and mythology rather than with the facts of history ; they either consist of uninscribed stones, or bear some mysterious characters, which successive generations of antiquaries have failed to decipher. Again, the walls of Hadrian and Antoninus in Britain, and the Teufelsmauer from Hohenstaufen to the Main 1 were boundaries of great importance, and will always be objects of special interest to the nations in whose territories their ruins still exist. But the ancient ramparts on the land side of Constantinople far surpass those to which I have alluded, whether Ave consider their picturesque situation between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmora, 2 the inscriptions upon them extending over many centuries and containing most exact dates, or lastly, the series of events which they have witnessed, ending in the long decay and death-struggle of the Roman empire

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