 ... again. The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey is its depopulation. Ruins, where villages had been built, and fallows where land had been cultivated, are frequently seen, with no living things near them. This effect is...  Southern Review - Page 2501829Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1829 - 584 pages
.... The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey is its depopulation. Iluins, where villages had been built, and fallows where land...frequently seen, with no living things near them.' — p. 221. It is pretty much the same in all the provinces and pashalicks. Some of the most fertile... | |
 | 1828 - 464 pages
...Turkey, is its depopulation. Ruins, where villages had been bnilf, and fallows where lanJ had 436 427 been cultivated, are frequently seen, with no living...months three sanguinary revolutions took place, which destroyed,two Sultans, and about thirty thousand of the inhabitants. These were followed by the plague... | |
 | Military art and science - 1862 - 652 pages
...circumstance in fact tiie most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey, is its depopulation. Euins where villages had been built, and fallows where land had been cultivated are frequently seen, and no living thing near them. But this will hardly surprise us, when we recollect that the Ottomans... | |
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