Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . ises and dresses, perfectly he goes forth, a looking-glass set in mother-of-pearl is brought, to adjust hiscravat, on the glass of which he deposits the price of his bath. It was originally settledat four aspers, which according to the present currency would be about one-third of afarthing, and it still continues nearly the same in the small towns and villages. In thecapital, however, it is increased, in the more sumptuous baths, to fifty paras, or fourpence. Where warm-springs are found, they are immediate
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . ises and dresses, perfectly he goes forth, a looking-glass set in mother-of-pearl is brought, to adjust hiscravat, on the glass of which he deposits the price of his bath. It was originally settledat four aspers, which according to the present currency would be about one-third of afarthing, and it still continues nearly the same in the small towns and villages. In thecapital, however, it is increased, in the more sumptuous baths, to fifty paras, or fourpence. Where warm-springs are found, they are immediately diverted into reservoirs, andedifices erected over them. Those of Kaplizza, near Brusa, already mentioned, areperhaps the finest in the world. In the centre saloon, under a noble dome, supportedby marble pillars, is a basin of fifteen yards in circumference, also of polished marble,and five feet deep, filled with hot and limpid water. At its source, whence it first issuesinto day, it is at a boiling heat, and blisters the finger that incautiously feels it. In the. WITH, THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. 37 baths, however, the heat is reduced to a tolerable temperature—in summer to 102°, andin winter to 90°. The process of bathing, substituting water for steam, is the sameas that described. The salutary effects of it are highly extolled, and perhaps withreason—opening the pores, and emulging, as the hakims say, the perspiratory glands; butstrangers who first submit to the rude and suffocating process, complain that it is asdebilitating as it is painful, under the coarse and awkward manipulation of such anoperator; and to natives who constantly use it, it is one of the enervating causeswhich is justly supposed to exhaust the strength and prostrate the energies of a modernTurk. The mysteries of a female bath, it is not permitted to see, no more than those ofEleusis: all that could be known, Lady MaryWortley Montague has told a century bath is the great coffee-ho
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