[9] To this the Greek girls form an exception. Refined by education, strongly attached to their families, and abhorrent to slavery, their natural vivacity is overcome by their state, and they appear sad and dejected amid the levity that surrounds them. [10] This practice is resorted to on other occasions. When any article is dropped into the water too minute to be discovered by the eye above, or dragged for, a small quantity of oil is thrown upon the surface, and rings and other trinkets have thus been recovered in a depth of ten or twelve feet of water. [11] “Les Grecs appellent Saint Jean Ayos Seologos an lieu d’Agios Theologus, le Saint Theologien, parce qu’ils prononcent le theta comme un sigma.”--TOURNEFORT. [12] Horologia in publico haberent nondum adduci potuerunt.--BUSBEQ. [13] Caravan Seraï, the “Merchants’ Palace.” [14] Rev ii. 15. [15] Acts vi. 5. [16] 1 Tim. vi. 20. CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE SCENERY OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR ILLUSTRATED. IN A SERIES OF DRAWINGS FROM NATURE BY THOMAS ALLOM. WITH AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CONSTANTINOPLE, AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES, BY THE REV. ROBERT WALSH, LL.D. CHAPLAIN TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY AT THE OTTOMAN PORTE. SECOND SERIES. FISHER, SON, & CO. NEWGATE ST., LONDON; & QUAI DE L’ECOLE, PARIS. [Illustration: T. Allom. S. Bradshaw. OBELISK OF THEODOSIUS, IN THE ATMEIDAN. Constantinople.] This splendid ornament of the ancient Hippodrome was brought from the Thebaïd in Egypt, and is one of those spoils which Constantine and his successors tore from their pedestals, to enrich and adorn New Rome with the pillage of ancient art. It was erected by the emperor Theodosius in thirty days, by means of machinery invented for the purpose, and of which some notice has been already taken in our description of the Atmeidan. The Obelisk consists of a single quadrangular block of Egyptian granite, sixty feet high, beautifully polished, and covered with hieroglyphics, still in perfect preservation. Of all the remains of antiquity, those of Egypt seem to be most perfect, though probably the most ancient. The hardness and durability of the material, the sharp and deep sculpture, and the mildness of the climate where they were erected, confer upon them an almost undecaying permanency; and while others of a more recent date, in the capital, appear defaced and nearly destroyed by the ravages of time and barbarism, the Obelisk of Theodosius is as beautiful and perfect, as when first finished by the hands of the workmen in the remotest ages.