CAT FA. 
. chap. most lamentable part of the injury which the 
v — y— ' town has sustained is owing to the destruction 
of the aqueducts and the public fountains ; tor 
these conveyed, together with the purest watei 
from distant mountains, sources of health and 
of comfort to the people. The Russian soldiers 
first carried otf the leaden pipes, in order to 
make bullets; then they took down all the 
marble slabs and large stones for building- 
materials; these they employed in the construc- 
tion of barracks : lastly, they destroyed the chan- 
nels for conveying water, because they said the 
water-porters cannot earn a livelihood wheie 
there are public fountains. Some of those 
fountains were of great antiquity ; and they 
were beautifully decorated with marble reser- 
voirs, exhibiting bas-reliefs and inscriptions. 
In all Mohammedan countries, it is considered an 
act of piety to preserve and to adorn the public 
destruction of these beautiful buildings. It is interesting to remark 
the caution with which he suppresses his indignation, while be thus 
communicates the fact. “ When 1 caused,” says he, “ the prospect 
of this town {Caff it) to he drawn from the side next the Bay, there 
were two minarets, sixteen fathoms high, and furnished with serpen- 
tine staircases leading to the top, though both structures have since 
been demolished." Trav. vol. II. p. 267- Had the Professor ventured 
two syllables further, if he had merely added the word Alas l his grey 
1, airs would not have saved him from what the archbishop of Moscow 
(p. 198 of Vol. |.) so emphatically styled "the free air of Siberia." 
Indeed few would have ventured even to mention the circumstance. 
Such considerations make a Union feel sensibly the blessings of the 
Constitution under which he lives.— 0 sua si bona norm t ! 
