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the Damafcenes, on the contrary, fober, induftrious, and iin- 
oftentatious. The females and children have commonly regular 
features and a fair complexion : the drefs of the women nearly 
the fame as at Conftantinople, white muflin veils, except 
the proftitutes, who, as ufual all over the Eaft, expofe their 
faces. To paint the face is an improvement unknown among 
the Oriental fair, fave the Greeks alone. 
The charitable eftablifhments in Damafcus are numerous, 
among which may be noted that conftruded by Sultan Selim, 
for the reception of ftrangers ; though his munificence have 
been fince diverted into other channels. The building confifts 
of a vaft quadrangle, lined with a colonade. It is entirely 
roofed in fmall domes, covered with lead. The mofque is 
grand. The entrance fupported by four large columns of red 
granite. It is covered with a cupola, and has two minarets. 
A handfome garden lies adjacent. The apartments are nu- 
merous, and the kitchen or muthach, on the fide oppofite to the 
mofque, is fuited to the grandeur of the eftablifhment. 
The celebrated Afad Pafha, mentioned by Niebuhr and Vol- 
ney, left an only daughter, of whom, on her marriage with 
Mohammed Paflia Adm, fprang the prefent Paflia Abdallah. 
Mohammed Paflia Adm was preceded by Ofman, and fucceeded 
by two of his own brothers fucceflively, the laft of whom, 
named Derwifli, was expelled by the intrigues of Jezzar, who 
gained his office, and married the daughter of Mohammed 
Paflia Adm. This marriage of ambition, not of affedion, ter- 
minated in a divorce a year after. Among other inftances of 
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