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sion of mind and matter.* My faculties appeared enlarged : every thiuff I 

 iooked on seemed increased in volume ; I had no longer the same pleasure 

 When 1 closed my eyes which I had when they were open ; it appeared to me 

 as It It was only external objects, which were acted on bv the imagination, 

 and mafeniified mto images of pleasure : in short, it was ''the faint exquisite 

 music ot a dream in a waking moment. I made my way home as fast as 

 possible, dreading, at every step, that I should commit some extravagance. 

 In walking, I was hardly sensible of my feet touching the ground, it seemed 

 as It 1 slid along the street, impelled by some invisible agent, and that my 

 bJood was composed of some ethereal fluid, which rendered my body lighter 

 than air. I got to bed the moment I reached home. The most extraordinary 

 visions of delight filled ray brain all night. In the morning I rose, pale and 

 dispirited; my head ached; my body was so debilitated that I was obliged to 

 remain^ on the sofa all the day, dearly paying for my first essay at opium 



Captain Frankland, after posting, and sketching, and singing, and 

 threatening his way from Vienna, reaches Constantinople, a perfect 

 stranger ; and here, unconscious of the danger to which he exposed 

 himself, he rambled through the streets of the city pour se disiraire. He 

 seems to have thought it a piece of monstrous bad taste that the women 

 whom he met with, looked at him with disgust; that some of them 

 abused him ; that a person of his havings could pass along the streets of 

 such a city and be spit upon, instead of making conquests at every step 

 He made several attempts to get into a mosque, not knowing that if he 

 had succeeded, and had been detected, he must either have assumed the 

 turban, or have been put to death for his pains. In his pokings about he 

 contrived to get a sentinel well beaten for permitting his intrusion— 

 mortally offended a Turkish lady, by blowing a kiss to her, and was 

 plentifully stoned— he calls it a " lapidation"— by some women who did 

 not like his looks. He, however, seems to have been quite unconscious 

 that he was doing any mischief; and as he escaped with whole bones 

 which IS an inexplicable marvel, he wiU very likely die in the belief that 

 It was no fault of his that he endured such rough treatment. His 

 descriptions of scenery are the most elaborate part of his writino-. He 

 has been told, perhaps, by some evil disposed persons, that his forte lies 

 in that style; and a careful study of Jlrs. Radcliffe's novels has con- 

 firmed him in the notion. Although we cannot congratulate him on the 

 success of his imitation, we must confess that he is always very amusino-. 

 His book is like one of those romances where the reader always expects 

 that some extraordinary incident is about to happen to the hero, and the 

 hope that he will be bowstringed, or at the least bastinadoed, in the next 

 page, keeps up the interest wonderfully. 



We leave our Captain for a while, and return to Mr. Madden The 

 practice of physic in Turkey may have its advantages; but it must be 

 admitted, upon the author's shewing, that it is neither so dignified nor so 

 lucrative as in England. Your physician in Constantinople walks the 

 streets for his practice, and plies for patients at the corner of a bazaar, or 

 in a coffee-house, just as your tinker or chair mender in London looks 

 out for his customers. He is obliged too to engage the assistance of a 

 drogueman, whose business it is " to scen t out sickness and extol the 



tha't JfteHnhiinS7 ^^7.'' "Remark.s on the Effects of Nitrous Oxide," he assert,, 

 aJmost im . i^^?' T' , » '^""'"^'' '='''«n'li"K f™™ the chest to the extremities, was 



IVI AT Ir ^"c '"." ^'^i'2'« impressions were dazzling, and apparently magnified." 



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