TO CAIRO. io r 
Ae afternoon of the 26th, I went thither to fee an 
edifice, which was ererted by the ufurping go- 
vernor, to tranfmit his name to pofterity. R con- 
futed of a handfome hall for the Janilfary Apa, 
clofing at the top in a dome, and had the walls’ 
adorned with feftoons, but the roof was fupported 
by fome fine marble columns from Italy. On each 
ide of the hall was a gallery, with a flat roof and 
painted walls. 
We mull not expert to find any traces in the 
furkifh architerturc, of the magnificence which 
yet vifible in that of the ancient Egyptians, 
recians, and Saracens, A Turk underflands 
not how to lay a ftone properly, much lefs how to 
raife a wall. The Armenians are their architefts, 
Who, by their natural inclination for the art, aflifted 
by what they have feen on their travels in the Ealt, 
build as well as can be experted from people who 
°we all their knowledge in a manner to nature. If 
thefe people were to travel to Europe, and there 
cultivate their parts, we might fee in the Eaft 
jnafters in every ufeful l'cience, who might proba- 
bly vie with the ancients, and furpafs many of the 
ftioderns. In the entrance to this place, are to be 
Jeen a number of various kinds of arms, ufed in the 
boly wars; being the remains of trophies which- the 
Saracens and Turks took from the Chriftiau forces 
a *ter their virtories : fueh as helmets, harneffes, battle 
axes > Pi^es, partizans, and fome bows, one of which 
Was of a prodigious fize. Thefe were the deftrurtive 
tmtruments of thofe times, before an unlucky che- 
ttucal invention taught men a fliorter way to fend 
another to the other world. The Janilfary 
f'ga, the Eihaja, who fliould dirert the police, and 
rnnmV 2 ’ - are th . e officers that are obliged to live 
- mtantly m their guard-ro;>m, which I law. A 
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