The beauties of the Bosphorus have been described in
every book of travel that has ever included this section of the
world in its descriptions: it is undoubtedly the most beautiful
waterway that may be found in any country.
Emerging into the Black Sea from the Bosphorus, one strikes the
Bulgarian coast not far above that neck of land on which Constantinople
is built. Along this stretch of coast up to the mouth of the Danube
there are two harbors, Varna and Burgas. Each is terminus of a
branch railroad leading off from the Nish-Sofia-Constantinople
line. Behind Burgas lie the level tracts of Eastern Rumelia, or
Thrace, as that part of the country is still called. But Varna
is above the point where the Balkan Range strikes the coast, all
of which is steep and rocky.
Above Varna begins the Delta of the Danube, up which steamers and
heavily laden barges sail continuously, but here also begins the
neutral territory of Rumania, the Dobruja, the richest section of
the Danube basin, which was ceded to Rumania by Bulgaria after
the Second Balkan War.
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CHAPTER XLV
THE CAUCASUS--THE BARRED DOOR
We now come to that section of the eastern theatre of the war which
received the least extended notice in printed reports--the barred
doorway between Europe and Asia--the Caucasus. Not because the
fighting there was less furious, but because the region was less
accessible to war correspondents.
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