424 TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
written by Anthimus, Patriarch of Jerufalem, againfl: the pre- 
vaiUng tenets of Deifm and Atheifm. They throw off about a 
thoufand fheets a day. 
The navy has of late been greatly improved by Le Brun and 
other French fhip-builders. On the 2d of April 1798 there 
were eight fhips of war at anchor in the Bofphorus ; three 
feventy-fours, four fifties, one forty. The whole navy amounts 
to fifteen fliips, fit for fervice, and of confiderable force. 
The Turkifh women, in fine weather, ape the European 
cuftom of taking the air in their carriages, in a great fquare ; 
but they are concealed in fmall latticed waggons, and veiled. 
They thus lofe the beft part of the difplay, " the mighty plea- 
fure of being feen." 
I fhall clofe my remarks on Conftantinople with obferving, 
that the country between it and Adrianople is completely plain, 
and that the capital is, on the land fide, incapable of any defence 
againft a victorious army. The uncertainty of the winds and 
channels join with the forts to defend the other fide from any 
fudden alfault. 
Proceeding through Wallachia to Vienna, Prague, Drefden, 
Leipfic, Potfdam, Berlin, and Hamburg, I arrived in London 
on the 1 6th of September, 1798, after an abfence of nearly 
leven years. 
