 | Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 492 стор.
...the harbour are filled up. See Gyllius de Bosphoro Thracio, 1. ic 5. 94 THE DECLINE AND FALL [CH.XVII to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As...the houses, while their sterns are floating in the water.13 From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbour this arm of the Bosphorus is more than... | |
 | Evelyn May Albright - 1911 - 296 стор.
...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...scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the harbor allows goods to be landed on the quays without the assistance of boats; and it has been observed... | |
 | John Franklin Genung, Charles Lane Hanson - 1915 - 424 стор.
...recess. As the vicissitudes of tides are scarcely felt in those seas, the constant depth of the harbor allows goods to be landed on the quays without the...the houses while their sterns are floating in the water. From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbor this arm of the Bosporus is more than seven... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 стор.
...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 houses, while their sterns are floating in the water. From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbour this arm of the Bosphorus is more than seven... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 стор.
...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 largest vessels may rest their prows against the 484 houses, while their sterns are floating in the water. From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 1022 стор.
...the Golden Horn; in the harbor of Chicago, and in a few other exceptional localities, that ' ' Ships may rest their prows against the houses, while their sterns are floating in the water." 2 Gibbon, Rome, 90. But the objection that the case is the first of its kind, must be pronounced... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1901 - 1524 стор.
...in the Golden Horn; in the harbor of Chicago, and in a few other exceptional localities, that "ships may rest their prows against the houses, while their sterns are floating in the water." 2 Gibbon, Rome, 90. But the objection that the case is the first of its kind, must be pronounced... | |
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... into the secure and capacious port of Constantinople. The river 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... 
