TO SMYRNA. 
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Turkifh manner, who never lay a corpfe where 
another before hath been buried, f uc h a place 
muft been larged every year; and probably, all the 
land belonging to the village will in time be filled 
With grave-ftones and bones of the dead. The 
largenefs of the place, and the number of monu- 
ineiits fhew, that the village muft have been acon- 
liderable time inhabited, as people live to a great 
age, and few die in a year. We alighted at the 
_ ou e or Mr. Begler, the chief Grecian merchant 
in in) rna, a niaii whom I ought to mention with 
relpeft; he had good fenfe, had lived long in Holland, 
and now had an extenfive trade to that country in 
company with a Dutch merchant. His houfe was 
om t m the Dutch tafte, and furrounded with a 
ma gulden, where no other plants grew 
Vj an thofe of the country. Marjoram (Origanum 
*ajorana) which almoft every farmer in Sweden 
-las growing in his garden, was reckoned the fcarceft 
Plant, and kept in a pot near the entrance of the 
houfe, with Cheiramhus Incanus ever again ft it, 
n r ' „ n ld . e w ? ™ fig-trees, Aimond-trees, 
\ \ ■, ’• 9 rient ( u ^ lane-tree, (Platanus orien- 
and ’ Wuh us are 1<e P r in hot-houfes 
and pots, but here m the open air left to nature; 
cooic however notice, that the hard fro ft towards 
T 3 , ^ February had raraged .he Orange! 
ed Ti, JO u e j ea .T, es and ^ ru i r Were entirely deftroy- 
moiuM rn had lk l Wife ha PPened in the town, a* 
we f rCe i that Were there - 0n return 
ward I i° r xT th f Were rolling from the South* 
inersin a X , ;1 C ^ octhward, who took up their lodg- 
fearlefs ^ h ^ u ' i J dd ’ where they walk as gentle and 
molt favn ,/ hcy were taine - Thefe birds are 
oured in Turkey. The Turks are their 
greateft 
