Excerpt from Lectures, Vol. 2 of 10: Illustrated and Embellished With Views of the World's Famous Places and People, Being the Identical Discourses Delivered During the Past Eighteen Years Under the Title of the Stoddard Lectures In this bewildering panorama, we know not what to admire first, for before us is an embarrassment of riches. But gradually we select, as the most conspicuous feature of the scene, a beautifully rounded promontory, called the Seraglio Point, because till recently it proudly bore upon its crest the Sultan's Palace or Seraglio. It rises from the waves just where three famous bodies of water form a union -the first, a glittering avenue named the Golden Horn; the second, that ocean-river called the Bosporus; the third, the Sea of Marmora, across which we have come in sailing north ward from the Mediterranean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.