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1 urks call it Mufcharumi, and it ferves them in 
their love affairs in this manner : A young; man f enc ] s 
tins flower to a girl he loves ; When (he fees it is 
Mufcharumi, flic muff remember a word in rhime to 
anfwer this, which isYd/kerumi, and puts her in 
mind by implication what her lover experts from 
* er ' , is ' s Properly called an allegorical manner 
o peaving.^ ikis evening 1 learned an ingenious 
method of giving wine a good and pleafant tafle, 
, om tbeFrench conful Mr. Peyfoncll, who had late- 
y got it from the Creek billiop in Smyrna. I have 
deienbed it in my collections, and took care of the 
thing with which it is to be done : this Mr. Peyfonell 
hlcewiie gave me. J 
The 24th in the afternoon, I had an opportunity 
J f WS f r na gogue. I went there with 
e Cona, tile principal Jew merchant in Smvr- 
a, and a man of knowledge acquired both by 
o ) ei ration and reading. There are not about fix 
ynagogues in Smyrna ; there were more formerly 
wh.ch were destroyed by fire, and not fmee rebuilt.’ 
the tid2 am 'f S i^'r fma!1> but bandfome. In 
dace fnr C rue Synagogue was an elevated 
belSi f d 1 d ™ h a dofa - TAlli " '•Well were 
enches. I took thofe, who fat there, for hoi y men. 
th° e U m d WaUs f ere likewife be «ches, upon which 
ealWi? fat ’. r ld ° n the fldes 011 thc ^d in 
Perfni- " j V \ 1 , G . P arat e clofets, in which the women 
a ami!?! r heir devotions. From the cieling hung 
flicks 1 ^ ° d am P s and fome metal candle- 
the books °/ th£fe f >’ na S°S ues Shewed 
ter on r, 1 Mofes, wrote in a fine Hebrew let- 
tied rou?®! 1 ’ - C ° Vered Wirh filk > rolled up and 
clofets n bbands. Ihey had about four 
in the w 4 Wlt J 1Uch volumes = thefe clofets flood 
' anc ^ 011 Ac pannels of the doors the 
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