Travels in Turkey and back to England

As to the temper and disposition of the inhabitants, they appear cordial and hospitable, drink almost continually, and eat plentifully, are unpolite but importunate in their civ...

For such monuments of Christianity, as are here visited by travelers, we are beholden to the tradition of the neighbouring Christians; who shew the place of _St. Mark’s_ and _St...

The third solemnity was a pompous procession, undertaken to accompany the bones of three Saints, namely, _Sancta Victoria_, _Sanctus Alexander_, and _Sanctus Justus_, from _St....

Not far from hence we begin to leave the mountain on our right hand, having the stream of the _Hermus_ in view on the left; and at a large distance before us the snowy top of th...

_Vienna_ is seated on a point of land, made by the confluence of the river _Wien_ and a branch of the _Danube_, which latter here enlarges itself about a thousand paces from its...

I saw the extravagant devotion of an enthusiastic sect of Turks which they publicly acted in the manner following. After their ordinary midday _namáz_ at a little _mosque_ of th...

Eight of our nation having lately designed a visit to the church of _Ephesus_, by name, Messieurs Whalley, Dunster, Coventry, Ashe, Turner, Clotterbooke, Frye, and Chishull, we...

The government of the city is by a free and sovereign jurisdiction of their own, which is lodged in three orders of men, the burgomasters, the senate, and the burgers. The burgo...

We continue anchored at the same place, being all this day entirely becalmed. And the day following, the calm having changed into a contrary wind detained us still at the same a...

I returned again to my lodgings at _Galata_, and the next day crossed the water in company with Mr. Goodfellow to _Constantinople_, where after a visit to the _mosque_ of _Solym...

Before eleven a clock we again take up our quarters at _Visakna_, that is, _Saltzburg_, so called from the _salt mines_; which I visited this afternoon, in company with the mini...

From the cathedral we are carried to the _Capuchin_ cloister, which consists of a small but most beautiful quadrangle. Round the four sides, under a fair portico, are painted th...

The whole province is luxuriantly rich, abounding with woods and pastures, but thinly inhabited, and that in caves and huts rather than houses. Its chief income proceeds from wa...

By nine this morning we transport ourselves and horses by boat from _Jerdáck_ to _Gallipoli_, and in three quarters of an hour arrive by God’s blessing on the European shore; wh...

The King of _Prussia_, as has been said, Sovereign of the place, opened an university here some years since, which at present flourishes with about a thousand students, and seve...

I now return again to _Amsterdam_, by the way of _Gouda_, in company with Mr. _Vandeput_. Here we stop to observe the excellent painted glass in the several windows of that chur...

GREEKS, their church at _St. George’s_, 3. Their devotion, 4. Manner of celebrating the Eucharist, _ib._ Churches at _Tyria_, 20. They abhor all imagery in _releivo_, 20, 61. Th...

Page 15. line 5. read _Achmetléer_. 24. 4. not. 44. 29. _Aurátbasar_. 76. 13. _alaí chiaush_. 77. 28. _lilia_. 88. 33. thither. 92. 29. _Judex_. 93. 32. _Banti_. 108. 9. _Glyche...

After five days spent in viewing these and other curiosities of _Messina_, we set sail the thirtieth of October, and by the ninth of the next month were obliged by contrary wind...

_No books are generally more entertaining and instructive, than the accounts of travels into foreign countries; and especially those, which are written in the way of_ Journals....

PRAGUE, the metropolis of _Bohemia_, described, 134. The town house, a church and college of Jesuits, Emperor’s palace, Capuchin cloister, cloister of Premonstratensians (called...