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Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878, by Various
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Title: Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878
Author: Various
Release Date: July 22, 2006 [EBook #18885]
Language: English
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=LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE=
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.
AUGUST, 1878.
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Footnote: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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ALONG THE DANUBE.
[Illustration: SOMENDRIA.]
Ada-Kalé is a Turkish fortress which seems to spring directly from the bosom of the Danube at a point where three curious and quarrelsome races come into contact, and where the Ottoman thought it necessary to have a foothold even in times of profound peace. To the traveller from Western Europe no spectacle on the way to Constantinople was so impressive as this ancient and picturesque fortification, suddenly affronting the vision with its odd walls, its minarets, its red-capped sentries, and the yellow sinister faces peering fr
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878
by Various Authors