Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . ible hand, and held suspended in the air over the heterodox priest,till he confessed and recanted his error. This miracle, called in the Greek churchypsomathea, or the divine elevation, gave a name to the whole district, where it isfirmly believed at this day. It is one of the quarters inhabited by the Armenians, andpresents many indications of the wealth and industry of that thriving people. It contains one of the principal baths of the city, in the luxury of which, OrientalChristians, as well as Moslems, indulge. After th
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . ible hand, and held suspended in the air over the heterodox priest,till he confessed and recanted his error. This miracle, called in the Greek churchypsomathea, or the divine elevation, gave a name to the whole district, where it isfirmly believed at this day. It is one of the quarters inhabited by the Armenians, andpresents many indications of the wealth and industry of that thriving people. It contains one of the principal baths of the city, in the luxury of which, OrientalChristians, as well as Moslems, indulge. After the process we have already describedis gone through, the bather, purged from all corporeal impurities, and escaped from thesensations of suffocation and dislocation, is led by the tellah to enjoy the luxury he has,in the opinion of many, dearly earned. Here, in an apartment reduced to a moderatetemperature, reclined at ease on a divan, his purified person slightly covered withshawls, entirely divested of his clothes, and perfectly free from all pressure or restraint,. WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA .MINOR. 79 he feels a renovated existence. Refreshments of various kinds are brought to him, and,after taking them, he lies for some time sunk in that dreamy repose of half-consciousexistence, which is the very paradise of an Oriental. When this is past, and the heatof his body is reduced gradually to its usual temperature, so that he apprehends no perilfrom sudden change, he resumes his clothes, and goes on his way rejoicing. Nothing can afford a stronger contrast than the cautious effeminacy of a Turk, andthe rude hardihood of his neighbour and enemy the Russian, in this particular. Bothequally indulge in hot-baths; but the one reduces the temperature of his body after-wards, by careful gradations, even in the midst of summer, and dreads any extremesensation as mortal; while the other rushes from burning heat, with every pore streamingwith perspiration, into the intense cold of fro
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