62 Mifcellama Curiofa. Vol. ItL 



Tho' their Year be according to the courfe 

 of the Moon, and fb thcTurkiJh Months run 

 round the civil Year in a Circle of thirty 

 three Years and a few odd Days, yet they 

 celebrate the Neuruz.^ which llgnifies in the 

 Terfian Tongue the New Year, the twenty 

 firft Day of March (on which Day the vernal 

 Equinox was fixed by the Greeh and other Ori- 

 ental C/?r//?/^;^i,in the time of the Emperor Con- 

 fiantine^ who made no Provifion for the '^po«- 

 yziTi? \<ri]^z^m^ or Preceffion, which in procefs 

 of Time the inequality between the Civil and 

 Aftronomical Year mull neceflarily produce) 

 at which time the Cadyes and other annual 

 Magiftrates, and Farmors of the Cuftoms 

 take Place, and reckon to that Day twelve 

 Month again. 



In their civil Deportment and Behaviour 

 one towards another, the left Hand is thb 

 more Worthy and Honourable Place, except 

 among their Ecclefiaflicks ; and the Reafon 

 tlley alledge is, becaufe they Write from the 

 right Hand, and the Sword is worn on the 

 leftside, and fo is more at his difpofal, who 

 walks on that Hand. The chief Fiz.ir ac- 

 cordingly in the Divan fits at the left Hand 

 of the Mufty^ each maintaining their Right 

 of Precedence according to this way of de- 

 cifion. 



In their Mofchs they fit without any diftin- 

 > £lion of degrees. 



Some of the more "zealous Turk§ caufe to 

 be engraven on their Scymitars and Bucklers 

 a Sentence out of the fixty firft Surat^ which 

 is concerning Fighting or Battle-array, and 



contains Incouragemeats to Fight in the Way 



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