:^ij^ Of their Revenues: 



eldeft of the Tmh Bafjees, whereby there is a Place vacant 

 in the Dou-wanne^ which is immediately filled up by the eldeft 

 Bulluck Βαββ6 ; &c. &c. The u4ga after having thus paifed 

 through the whole Courfe of his Duty, is from thence forward 

 confidered as {Mazoule) fuperannuated, quietly enjoying his 

 Pay, and, according to the old Poet, 



Senio confe6ti£ quiefcit. Enn. 

 The Revevucs I could Hevcr learn that the yearly Taxes of this great and 

 Λ;«. ' "^ fertil Kingdom bring more into the Treafury than three hun- 

 dred thoufand Dollars : but it is computed, that the eighth 

 Part of Prizes, the EfFefts of Perfons dying without Children, 

 the Contributions from the independent Ka'ides, and the fre- 

 quent ^var-eas and OppreiTions, may bring in as much more. 

 Tke_ Pay of To compenfatc this, the Pay is but fmall, the youngeft Sol- 



their Soldiers, j• •• λ r i ii λ r ytr 



dier receivnig only tour hundred and lix yijfers every two 

 Months, and the eldeft, or thofe in full Pay, no more than five 

 thoufand eight hundred ; whereof fix hundred and ninety fix 

 make a Dollar '. Now as they arrive not at full Pay, but in 

 the Space of a Number of Years, the young Soldiers receiving 

 an Augmentation only of an hundred and fixteen ^Jpers^' every 

 Year, the whole Army may be reduced to about three thou- 

 fand five hundred in full Pay, whereby a Sum, lefs than two 

 hundred thoufandDollars,will defray the wholeExpence. Though 

 we are to obferve at the fame Time, that, befides the Pay, fuch 

 Tiah and Bulluck Bafljees as are unmarried, have each of them 

 eight Loaves of Bread a Day, ίίηάΧ.)\^0άαΒαβ}6β$ and private 

 Soldiers, who are in the fame Condition, have four ; each Loaf 

 being about five Ounces in weight, and three ^fpers in value. 

 Of their In the ordinary Diftribution of Juftice, there is in This as in 

 judicature, all othcr Tl^r^'iyZ? Governments, an Officer whom they call the 

 Cadf, who, for the moft Part, hath had his Education in the 

 Seminaries of «S/^w^i?«/6'' or Gra^d Cairo, where, I am told, the 

 Roman Codes and Tande6is, tranflated into the-^r^^irA' Tongue, 

 are taught and explained as in theUniverfities oi Europe. The 



I Sive Tbalcro, qui Germanis Sic dicitur a Thale feu Dale \. e. VaWis ; unde Thaler feu 

 Daler, q. d. Valloifis nummus, a Valle Saufti Joach'imi ubi primo cufi lunt. Hinc fadum ut 

 tandem Scutati omnes (quos numnios7wi;'fn4/e/ vocamus) Thalcri hodie vocantur. Vid. Hjd. 

 Annot. in^wWi/ LiturgiamTurcarum, p. lo. 2 lite nummulus, Turc'tce dicitur 5.=s:*l i.e. 

 Albulus 5 unde a 0Γ.Έΰί5 fua lingua hodierna vocatur hme)' i• e• Albus &c. Αιζσ^ί»• pecuniam 

 albam in genere notat. Id. ibid. 3 Conflantinople \s cAleazW over the Levant, Stambouleoc 

 Stanpole, whicii fccms rather to be the Corruption or Contradtion of the ancient Name, as 

 Jambol is of Joamiopolis, than of nV τώο •τήκιν, as fome Authors give into. Vid. Hjd. Not. in 

 Colmogr. Perits. p. j2. Sir George U'lteeler's Trav. p. 178. 



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