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CONSTANTINOPLE. 
cpiap. foreigner visit the bazar \ properly so called, 
— ; he will see nothing but slippers, clumsy boots of 
bad leather, coarse muslins, pipes, tobacco, 
coffee, cooks’ shops, drugs, flowers, roots, 
second-hand pistols, poignards, and the worst 
manufactured wares in the world. In Pera, 
Greeks and Italians are supposed to supply all 
the necessities of the Franks : and here, it is true, 
a few pitiful stalls are to be seen; but all the 
wares are dear and bad. Suppose a stranger 
to arrive from a long journey, in want of clothes 
for his body, furniture for his lodgings, books or 
maps for his instruction and amusement; paper, 
pens, ink, cutlery, shoes, hats ; in short, those 
articles which may be found in almost every 
city of the world : he will obtain few or none 
of them in Constantinople, unless they be of a 
quality so inferior as to render them incapable 
of answering the purposes for which they were 
made. The few commodities exposed for sale, 
are either exports from England, unfit for any 
other market, or, which is worse, German and 
Dutch imitations of English manufacture. The 
woollen cloths are hardly good enough to cover 
the floors of their own counting-houses ; every 
article of cutlery and hardware is detestable ; 
(l) Bazar is the Turkish word for market. 
