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popper articles were sold, which is remarkable on ac- 
count of the astonishing quantity of those utensils, 
and the neat way in which they are exposed in each 
warehouse. 
Constantinople is the only Mussulman city in which 
there are carriages used. They are hung upon four 
wheels, well proportioned, loaded with gilding, covered 
with a white or red cloth, and drawn by two horses, 
led at a slow pace by a coachman on foot. The back of 
the carriage is occupied by a little pair of steps, which 
is placed at the door to ascend and descend. The Turks 
never have any lacqueys. They seemingly even disdain 
to use carriages in town, for in all that I saw there were 
only women. 
I was disposed one day to examine the Hippodrome, 
called by the Turks Atmeidan, more in detail. It is an 
irregular place, about 250 paces long and 150 broad, 
in the middle of which rises a fine Egyptian obelisk of 
red granite, similar to the needles of Cleopatra at Alex- 
andria, but not so high, although its elevation is com- 
puted to be sixty feet. It presents upon each face a 
single perpendicular line of hieroglyphics of large di- 
mensions. It stands on four cubes of bronze, under 
which is a pedestal, composed of different pieces of 
coarse marble badly wrought. Upon each of the four 
sides is a crowd of extravagant figures in relief, in the 
degraded style of the Greeks of the middle ages. I was 
told that these figures represented the disciples of Jesus 
Christ; but what is most certain is, that the pedestal 
is a disgrace to the monument, and will one day cause 
its destruction, through the bad combination of its 
parts. 
Some paces distant from the Egyptian obelisk, is a 
second raised by the Greeks, in imitation of it. I be- 
