A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . ough inthe heart of a country whose inhabitants have been at all timesmost strict in that respect, and considered the custom as a strangecorruption, and degeneracy of manners %. The restraint severelyobserved one hundred and fifty years ago in the treatment of theSpanish women, was not produced by the sun, but was a relic ofMoorish manners. The distinction between the hooded Thebanwomen and the Spartan Phaenomerides, was caused, not by thedifferent aspect of the sky,
A Journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810 . ough inthe heart of a country whose inhabitants have been at all timesmost strict in that respect, and considered the custom as a strangecorruption, and degeneracy of manners %. The restraint severelyobserved one hundred and fifty years ago in the treatment of theSpanish women, was not produced by the sun, but was a relic ofMoorish manners. The distinction between the hooded Thebanwomen and the Spartan Phaenomerides, was caused, not by thedifferent aspect of the sky, but the separate institutions of thetwo states. It may be inferred that the Turks, when they first issued fromtheir mountains, and were like their other Tartar brethren a wan-dering nation, had not such ability of confining their women astheir Ottoman descendants, who have fixed settlements, and have * State of Turkey, p. 307, 4to. + De VEsprit deLois. Liv. xvi. cap. 4. •% Decline and Fall, vol. ii. 4to. p. 351. -?•-•??^??~???-^ ?*?-??-•; i%^>r^i^<i*S5 ^,-^?^ ^^^| ik^t^K-^^. _A [SMWDMA^o Zondm Bif>lie/i M Jam as• Cmv&om 24. CocAj-/tur,$lnee£fof2. LETTER XLIV. 847 deserted the camp for the city. Neither Carpin, Rubruquis, northe otlier carl ? travellers amongst the Oriental Tartars, advert toany seclusion of their females, although they notice the pluralityand the buying of their wives*. We learn, however, that the de-Jicacy of never speaking of their females, is ascribed in a muchhigher degree to the Turkish nations, than to the other Orien-tals-!-. Whether we are to call their seclusion barbarous or not, thepity bestowed upon the Turkish women may well be M. W. Montague, who had the best means of forming ajudgment, has given an enviable picture of their domestic life;and, as far as can be observed from their public appearance, theyare in possession of the enjoyments suited to their taste. Theycan ride in their arabats, sail in their barges, and
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