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{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
The following sketch Of this once beauti-
full and iourishins city is from the animated
pen Of a late traveller.


1t was evening when we entered the basin
of Constantinople; and it was like scene of
enchantment. The seraglio, in part range
of white buildings, beautifully figured in
front, with hanging roofs lead colour, but
without any magnificence of architecture,
stood close to the waters edge; behind was
a rich and moveless mass of cypress, varied