 ... a perpetual 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 tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of...  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Side 17av Edward Gibbon - 1900Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edward Gibbon - 1783 - 554 sider
...recefles of the harbour arefilled up. See Gj^lius de Bofphoro Thracio, 1. ic 5. B 4 while their flerns are floating in the water '*. From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbour, this arm of the Bofphorus is more than feven miles in length. The entrance is about five •'... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 436 sider
...recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the harbour allows goods to be landed on the quays without the...largest vessels may rest their prows against the houses, B 4 . while * Namque artissimo inter Europam Asiamque divortio Byzantium in extrema Europa posuere... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 sider
...port. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in these seas, the constant depth of the harbour allows goods to be landed 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1810 - 462 sider
...recess. As the vicissitudes of tides arc scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the harbour allows goods to be landed on the quays without the...the houses, while their sterns are floating in the water13. From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbour, this arm of the Bosphorus is more than... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 sider
...tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the harbour allows goods to be landed orr the quays, without the assistance of boats; and it...the largest vessels may rest their prows against the bouses, white their sterns are floating in the water. From thfe mouth of the Lyeus to that of the harbour,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 474 sider
...recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the harbour allows goods to be landed on the quays without the...houses, while their sterns are floating in the water m. From the moutli of the Lycus to that of the harbour, this arm of the Bosphorus is more than seven... | |
 | 1830 - 288 sider
...recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the harbour allows goods to be landed ' on the quays, without 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 sider
...recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the harbour allows goods to be landed on the quays without the...assistance of boats . and it has been observed, that in tnauy places the largest vessels may rest their prows against the houses, while their sterns are footing... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 sider
...recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the harbour allows goods to be landed on the quays without the...boats ; and it has been observed, that in many places die largest vessels may rest their prows against the houses, while their sterns are floating in the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 830 sider
...recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the harbour allows goods to be landed 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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