TO CONSTANTINOPLE. 
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by a French engineer of the name of Le Brun, chap. 
surprised us by its extraordinary beauty. Its ■ . - - 
guns were all of polished brass ; and its immense 
ensign, reaching to the surface of the water, 
consisted entirely of silk. 
After what has been said of the external Disgusting 
grandeur of this wonderful city, the Reader IS ance of the 
perhaps ill prepared for a description of the Suects ' 
interior; the horror, the wretchedness, and 
filth of which are not to be conceived. Its 
streets are narrow, dark, ill paved, and full of 
holes and ordure. In the most abominable 
alleys of London, or of Paris, there is nothing so 
revolting. They more resemble the interior of 
common sewers than public streets. The 
putrefying carcases of dead dogs, with immense 
heaps of filth and mud, obstruct a passage 
through them. Owing to the inequalities and 
holes in the narrow causeway, it is almost 
impossible to proceed without danger of putting 
an ancle out of joint. We landed at Galata, in Arrival at 
the midstof dunghills, where a number of large, G "‘" la ' 
lean, mangy dogs, some with whelps wallowing 
in mire, and all of them covered with dirt, 
were sprawling or feeding. The appearance 
of a Frank 2 instantly raises an alarm among 
(2) The name applied to every Christian in the Levant, of whatsoever 
nation. 
