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white edifices , neither lofty nor imposing ; and then a drizzling rain drove us below , for the night . 12 th . —Entered the Golden Horn at snnset . Fortunately , fine weather , which seems hitherto to have kept its smiles for the land , its frowns for the sea . The view of Constantinople , as it first bursts upon the traveller ,
is surpassingly beautiful . Moreover , it is a strange feeling to look for the first time on minaret and mosque , —to feel you have left the Cross and encountered the rule of the Crescent . This most picturesque of cities clusters in a crescent-like form ^ rising very gently from the sea , with a back-ground of hills . Palace and seraglio , mosque and minaret , gaily painted summer villa , cypress , plane , and vine-covered hills—the blue mountains and still bluer sea
¦ —forming a scene never to be forgotten . Opposite to us—its white walls glistening conspicuously in the sunlight—stood the spot on which our most ^ vivid intere st was concentrated , which is now a household word in England . It needed not that more experienced travellers should point it out—each , of us . exclaimed " Scutari ! " at the same moment .
There lay the scene of so much suffering and true heroism—of woman ' s devotion and man ' s endurance—the focus of England ' s sympathies ! We gazed long and earnestly upon it . It stands , as every one now knows , on a hill at the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus ; commanding a superb view , and surrounded by an immense cemetery , which stretches away interminably . It is decided we are not to land till to-morrow , as evening is too far spent , and we are to remain here ten days , ( To be continued . )
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
[ TnE E ditor , does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ^
TO THE EDITOR OP THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONI 0 MIRROR , Dear Sir and Brother , —I perceive by an advertisement in the Times of yesterday , that a few [ Brethren have formed themselves into a committee for the purpose of raising a fund to be presented to Bro . Coggin , late of the Freemasons ' Tavern , where he has been engaged for the last thirty years . Bro . Coggin is too
well known and respected to require any eulogy from me . 1 shall therefore content myself with observing , that the Brethren of the St . John ' s Lodge , No . 196 , entertain so high an opinion of that worthy Brother , and of the propriety of the step taken by his friends , that on my bringing the subject before them last evening , they determined on supporting it by their individual subscriptions ; and YOTj . II , O
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white edifices , neither lofty nor imposing ; and then a drizzling rain drove us below , for the night . 12 th . —Entered the Golden Horn at snnset . Fortunately , fine weather , which seems hitherto to have kept its smiles for the land , its frowns for the sea . The view of Constantinople , as it first bursts upon the traveller ,
is surpassingly beautiful . Moreover , it is a strange feeling to look for the first time on minaret and mosque , —to feel you have left the Cross and encountered the rule of the Crescent . This most picturesque of cities clusters in a crescent-like form ^ rising very gently from the sea , with a back-ground of hills . Palace and seraglio , mosque and minaret , gaily painted summer villa , cypress , plane , and vine-covered hills—the blue mountains and still bluer sea
¦ —forming a scene never to be forgotten . Opposite to us—its white walls glistening conspicuously in the sunlight—stood the spot on which our most ^ vivid intere st was concentrated , which is now a household word in England . It needed not that more experienced travellers should point it out—each , of us . exclaimed " Scutari ! " at the same moment .
There lay the scene of so much suffering and true heroism—of woman ' s devotion and man ' s endurance—the focus of England ' s sympathies ! We gazed long and earnestly upon it . It stands , as every one now knows , on a hill at the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus ; commanding a superb view , and surrounded by an immense cemetery , which stretches away interminably . It is decided we are not to land till to-morrow , as evening is too far spent , and we are to remain here ten days , ( To be continued . )
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
[ TnE E ditor , does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ^
TO THE EDITOR OP THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE AND MASONI 0 MIRROR , Dear Sir and Brother , —I perceive by an advertisement in the Times of yesterday , that a few [ Brethren have formed themselves into a committee for the purpose of raising a fund to be presented to Bro . Coggin , late of the Freemasons ' Tavern , where he has been engaged for the last thirty years . Bro . Coggin is too
well known and respected to require any eulogy from me . 1 shall therefore content myself with observing , that the Brethren of the St . John ' s Lodge , No . 196 , entertain so high an opinion of that worthy Brother , and of the propriety of the step taken by his friends , that on my bringing the subject before them last evening , they determined on supporting it by their individual subscriptions ; and YOTj . II , O