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They reckon in the City above a hundred publick baths, e- 
very ftreet alaioft affording one. They are elteemed works of 
c^reac Piety and Charity, there being a continual ufe of them, 
iTiot aaly upon the acconipt of religion, but of health and clean- 
Ihiefs. For their dyet being for the moft part hot fpiced meats 
ia the winter, and crude fruits in the fummer, their liquor foun- 
tain water, or CofFee^to which we may add their lazy kind of life 
( for walking is never ufed by them for digeftion, or otherwife in 
the way of diveifion ) frequent bathing becomesneceffary. 
There are feveral receptacles of water under ground, and 
one particularly under the Church of Sancla Sophia^ as I was 
iafonned ; but 1 did not think it worth my curiofity to defcend 
into It. Thefe were of great ufe to the poor Greeks in the laft 
fatal fiege ; but the TurXs are io fecure,that they do not think, 
that they deferve either coft or pains to keep the waters fweet, 
or the ciiterns in repaire, 
"Xh^ JquceduH:s ^ which anfwer tothofe glorious AqriceduUs ^ 
near Pyrg^os , and convey the water to the great ciitern neer 
Sultan cS'^/^'wj' Mofch, are in that psiVt of Con/iantinople , which 
lies between the Mofch of Mahomet tYio. Great and Sha ^ade. 
The Turks began to befiege Confia?itinople on the fifth oi Jpril, 
and took it the twenty ninth of May on Whitfun Tuefday morn- 
uig 14^:?. or as t\\QTurks reckon in the year 8f 7. of ihtHegira, 
or flight of Mahomet , the 22. day of the firft Jomad, 
The Chappel, Ejub Sultan is interred, at whofe head 
and feet I obferved great w^ax candles, is enclofed with fatten 
wire grates, for the better accommodation of fuch religious 
Turks, as come to pay their refped: to the memory of this great 
MufulmanSMx\t.\i\ the middle of the Area there is raifed a build- 
ing fuftained by excellent marble pillars, afcended bytwoTe- 
veral pair of itairs, where the new Emperor is inaugurated, and 
where he ufually goes in Biram time. 
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