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refiding here fin^e their acqueifts in Thrace j 

 pr fcarce making vifits to this Imperial City> 

 and none of their Sons living here of late, 

 according to the former Policy of the Turkijh 

 Emperors, who did not permit their Sons, 

 when grown up, to be near them, but fent 

 them to fome Honourable Employment, ac- 

 companied with a Bafla and Cadi to inftruft 

 them in the Arts of War and Government, 

 it lies now negleded and difpoiled of all its 

 ornaments. 



In this part alfo are the Sepulchers of Of^ 

 man^ the founder of the Family, which now 

 Reigns, and his Son Vrchm^ who took the 

 City, near a Mofch, formerly a Chrifiim 

 Church dedicated to St. John^ and where was 

 formerly a Convent of Religious, built by 

 Confiantinus Jconomachm^ where I law the fi- 

 gure of a Croft ftill remainingupon the WalL 

 Here hangs up a Drum of a vaft bignefs,- 

 fuch as they carry upon the backs of Cammels, 

 and I fuppofe is one of thofe which they ufed 

 in the taking the Place. 



In the lower part, near the bottom of the 

 Hill, Morad the fecond, the Father of Ma^ 

 hornet the Great, lies buried : near whereunto 

 was formerly the Metropolitical Church of 

 the Holy A^oftUs. Th^Bez^efien^ or Exchange, 

 feems to be much better and larger than the 

 great one at Conftantinofle^ as are the feveral 

 Caravanferais built for the ufe and accomoda- 

 tion of Merchants, and Travellers ^ in one of 

 which, the Rice Chane, I took up my quar- 

 ters. 



Without the City toward the Eaft is the 

 Mofch and Sepulcher of the Emperor Bajaz^id 



