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City, befidesfix in Galata o£ which I have given anaccompt 
el(e where. They have alfo two Churches at Scutari, one at 
i^dikuiov Chalcedon. So atStauroJis^Chingilkui, and feveral other 
Villages upon the Afian fliore of the Bofphorus, as at BeJlnUajb , 
^'Aorf?^^^ ^Z?^/);?^, which Church is dedicated to St. M/- 
chael the Archangel, 5^^W2^2^^ or Neochorion.TherapiayBujukderey 
and other Villages on x\\t Europcean fide. They have alfo a 
Church at Hashui , where is their Burying place, and another 
near \\i^Ba^no, dedicated to St. Parafceve, And SitTatoula 
about a mile from Pera, upon a Hill, which from the name 
of the Church is thence called by the Greeks and Fran^ ^ St. 
Demetrms his Hill. Next to the holy Virgin, St. Demetrius and 
St. George have moft Churches dedicated to them. 
The Armenians have 4iot , if I remember aright, above fea- 
ven Churches 5 they being few in number in comparifonof the 
{greeks. 
'X)xzjews may have in the City and places adjacent between 
twenty and thirty Synagogues, this being the greateft Ihelter of 
that accurfed and contemptible people in the Grand Signors do- 
minions, next to Caire ana Saloniki: and I believe there may be 
about twenty or thirty thoufand families of them. They are of 
great ufe & fervice to the Turks, upon accompt of their brocage 
and marchandife, and induftryin feveral mechanical trades. 
All thefe I look upon as Natives, or Slaves rather, each paying 
mony for his head every year. The Jews indeed very wifely 
colled: this tax among themfelves and according to an agree- 
ment made with the Tefterdar or Treafurer, pay a certain 
fum itt grofs for their whole nation refiding there : by which 
piece of cunning they are great gainers, and fpare the poor 
among them.lefs able- to pay, by a contribution of the rich to 
make up the fum. Tho^ EngliJh and D^^^^Z? AmbaflTadors have 
their Chappels in their Palaces common to their refpedive 
Nations. 
The Churches and Chappels of the WQ&tTnChriJHans oithc 
J{oman Communion in Galata, are 
St, Peters, belonging to the Dominicans^ where is the fa- 
mous piece of Madonna di Conjlantinopoli as the Italians caW it, 
or 
