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finely-coloured pillars, that they can scarcely K ‘'ft'lirbi''" 
natural marble. On one side is the pulpit, ot white ‘ 
gallery for the Grand = gilt 
built up 
and on the other the little gallery 
A hue staircase leads to it; and it 
fcltlces. At the upper end is a kind of altar. 
cal’* 
name of God is inscribed : and before it stand 
sticks, six feet in height, with wax candles in p< 
Hue pavement is spread with fine carpets, and tn 
illuminated by a vast number of lamps. The coot ^ 
to it is very spacious, with galleries of marble, sir iJi 
by green columns, and covered by 28 leaden cupe ^ 
sides, with a fine fountain in the centre. . ..noiK 
The mosque of Sultan Selim I. at Adrianople ^ 
surprising monument of Turkish architecture. 
in the centre and most elevated part of the city, so as 
a t'ery noble display. The first court has lour y 
ftinermost three ; both being surrounded by clots e 
marble pillars of the Ionic order, finely polished, 
lively colours ; tlie entire jravement is of white d’’’' 
the roof of the cloisters is divided into severtd c (f 
domes, surmounted with gilt balls. In the mid* 
court are fine fountains of white marble ; and, f 
grand etttrance, is a portico, with green marble P,' p , 
vided with five gates. The body ot the mosqU® 
digious dome, adorned with lolty towers, w'heucetr tl'‘ || 
or priests, call the people to prayers. The 
towers is very artfully contriwd: there is but one 
leads to three different staircases, going to 
stories of die tower, in such a manner, that thrc« P p,e<' 
ascend and descend, by a spiral progress, with" 
each other. 
The w'alls of the interior are inlaid with |s, 
mented with small flowers and other namralobif 
lively colours. In the centre hangs a vast lamp 
besides w'hich there are at least two thousand 
the whole, when lighted, have a very splendid ^ 
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RUINS OF CARTHAGE. 
of 'lid 
Tub rema ns of the grandeur and magnificence c'‘ 
she rival of Rome, and one of die most conim*^ 
the ancient world, are not so strikitig as might b* 
