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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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His plan of the seven hills is clear and accurate.

That traveller is seldom unsatisfactory.] [Footnote 23: See Belon, Observations, c.

72--76.

Among a variety of different species, the Pelamides, a sort of Thunnies, were the most celebrated.

We may learn from Polybius, Strabo, and Tacitus, that the profits of the fishery constituted the principal revenue of Byzantium.] [Footnote 24: See the eloquent description of Busbequius, epistol.


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