Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . ns; but, from the Oriental region in which they arefound, they recall the memory to the usages of a still more remote antiquity, whenMoses builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, and Joshua set up twelvestones in the midst of Jordan, and ordered twelve more to be carried on mens shoulders,to be set up in their lodging-place. t The snow of this mountain constitutes a considerable part of the treasures of theTurkish empire, as it does of its comforts and its luxuries. It is the exclusive propertyof the sultan, wh
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . ns; but, from the Oriental region in which they arefound, they recall the memory to the usages of a still more remote antiquity, whenMoses builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, and Joshua set up twelvestones in the midst of Jordan, and ordered twelve more to be carried on mens shoulders,to be set up in their lodging-place. t The snow of this mountain constitutes a considerable part of the treasures of theTurkish empire, as it does of its comforts and its luxuries. It is the exclusive propertyof the sultan, who farms it out to tenants, who vend it as more valuable than any produceof the soil. They are bound to supply the seraglio with a certain quantity, and the restis disposed of to the population of Constantinople. It is sent down from the mountainscut into cuneiform wedges, and packed in felt, and caravans of mules are continually * It is, however, more generally supposed that Olympus in Thessaly and Macedon is that desig-nated by Homer. t Exod. xxiv. 4. Joshua iv. WITH, THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA MINOR. 31 descending with such loads. It is brought to a promontory near Moudania, called fromthence Booz Bournou, or the Cape of Ice, whence it is embarked for the capital, andin such abundance, that the poorest hummal cools his sherbet with it during the hottestseason of the year. The illustration presents all the objects of interest peculiar to the place. In theforeground is a caravan crossing an antique bridge, thrown over one of the snow-dissolved currents which intersect the plain. On one side buffaloes are dragging theponderous arrhuba; on the other, they are grazing on the low pastures, or coolingthemselves in the water. The horse, in Turkey, is never degraded to a servile use:the drudgery of labour is thrown upon the buffalo. It is a singular species of ox, ofimmense strength, but of a structure so coarse and rude, that it seems as if Naturesjourneymen had made it, and that
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