 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 436 sider
...little streams, pours into the harbour a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish...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
...wafted into the secure and capacious port. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in these seas, the constant depth of the harbour allows goods...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
...little streams, pours into the harbour a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish...that convenient 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... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 sider
...little streams, pours into the harbour 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 convfcnievrt recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 432 sider
...supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals offish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As...largest vessels may rest their prows against the houses* * Namque artissimo inter Europam Assiamque divortio Byzantinm in extrema Enropi posucre Graeci, quibus,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 520 sider
...supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals offish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As...the houses, while their sterns are floating in the water."1 From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbour, this arm of the Bosphorus is more than... | |
 | 1830 - 288 sider
...little streams, pours into the harbour a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish...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... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1834 - 826 sider
...into the harbour a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and invites the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess." A little farther on he tells us that " the Propontis has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible store... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 sider
...little streams, pours into the harbour a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish...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... | |
 | Godfrey Levinge - 1839 - 362 sider
...This river is formed by the junction of two streams, whose current serves to cleanse the bottom, and invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. The harbour can accommodate 1200 sail of shipping at the same time, and deep enough to float those... | |
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Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams, pours into the harbour 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... 
