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also chiefly consists of rice and other vegetables, 
with which they eat a little réasted flefh *. In April 
even the people of distinction eat daily, for two or 
three weeks, from ten to twelve pounds of melons ; 
and there are persons that will consume thirty-five 
pounds of that fruit, without doing themselves any 
harmt. As long as the melon season lasts, and 
that is about four months, the common people eat 
nothing but melons and cucumbers, and the latter 
“without any preparation whatever. Chardin gives 
it as his opinion, that in all France there are not so 
many melons eaten in a whole month, as are consumed 
in Ispahan in one single day't. 
As the countries inhabited by the Turks are far 
lefs hot, and, with all their indolence, that people use 
more motion than the Persians, so they eat in gene- 
ral more, and also more flefh and lefs fruit than ‘ 
the Persians ||. Yet among the Turks, vegetables, 
either raw or boiled, especially rice, are the prin- 
cipal food]. They rarely eat beef; and in Syria 
they are so intemperate in the use of raw fruits, that 
they bring upon themselves, by that practice, dis- 
eases to which the Europeans are not subject §. The 
Arabians live almost entirely on bad baked millet 
bread **, like the inhabitants of Sennaar, who yet, 
with this diet, are said to be much more robust than 
the Europeans tt. Even among the Moors, or the 
* Chardin vol iii. p. 76. + Idem, "4 Pe 2260 } Idem ubi supra. 
|| Idem, tom, iii. p. 76. J Ludeke, p. 115. § Rufsel, p. 109 138. 
®® Niebuhr, descript, p. 57. Tt Lettr. edifi. tom. iv. p. 15. 
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