Note 026
From Chapter 68 of the Decline & Fall

The Baron de Tott (tom. iii. p. 85 - 89), who fortified the Dardanelles against the Russians, describes in a lively, and even comic, strain his own prowess, and the consternation of the Turks. But that adventurous traveller does not possess the art of gaining our confidence.

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