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life and accommodatiou of Merchants? and ^raiv^eUers, j 
VI cue of which, the Rice Chane, 1 took op my quar- 
ters. 
Without the City toward the eaft is the Mofch and Se- 
pulcher of the Emperor Baja^?d th^^ firft, whoai the Tur^s 
cAlJilderim or lightning, andthe Greek Writers Ast/Aee^, 
Not far from hence is the Mofch of MahometxhQ firft, 
and his Sepulcher. Toward the weft upon the fide of the 
hill is the Mofch of Morad the firftj whom they call G^^^' 
or the Conqueror, near which he iyes buried. There 
are in the whole about 1 24 Mofchs^ federal of which were 
iovmcxlj Chrijti an Churches, and between fifty and fixty 
Chanes. The Caftles built by Ojman^ when he belieged 
the City, are {lighted and altogether unfortifyed , the 
one to the north, the other to the fouth- weft. 
At Checker ghe, about a mile and a half out of Town, 
are the hot Baths,much frequented both by Chrijlians and 
T^ur\s. They are made very convenient to Bath in, and 
are covered over, that they may be ufed in all weathers. 
Among others, there isa large round Bafin, where they 
ufually divert themfelves by Iwiaiming. 
What opinions t\x^Tur\s have of our B. Saviour and 
the Chrijhan Religion, 1 fliall briefly fiiew, as they lye 
difperfed in feveral chapters of the Alcoran, according to 
which they frame their difcourfe whenfoever either'zeal 
or curiofity puts them upon tins topicLFor Mahomet upon 
hiS fetting up to be the Author ofa new Religion^finding 
fuch a confiderable part of the World profeffing the do- 
ctrine of Chriji ^ with all the myfteries of faith therein 
contained, was caft upon a neceffity of faying fomething 
both concerning him and it. By which it will appear, 
how great the power of truth is above impoiture and fub- 
tiiity , and that as the Devils in the poffeffed confefs't, 
though againft their wills, Chrijt to be the Ion of God^ fo 
t\v\%I)cemoniach^\\\x]iQm\^^ol all his forgeries, and lyes, 
and ridiculous and childiflinarratives, not being able to 
A 2 contradict 
