IN TURKEY. 
here there were two coffee-houses ; which, in a chap. 
7 x. 
Turkish harbour, answer to the brandy-shops, 
or ale-houses, frequented by English sailors in 
their own ports ; coffee being the substitute for 
spirits or beer. In these coffee-houses may be 
seen groupes of Turkish mariners, each party 
being squatted in a circle around a pan of 
burning charcoal, smoking, sipping coffee, 
chewing opium, or eating a sort of sweetmeat, 
in shape like a sausage, made of walnuts or 
almonds, strung upon a piece of twine, and 
dipped in the inspissated syrup of new wine, 
which has been boiled until it has acquired the 
consistence of a stiff jelly, and bends in the 
hand like a piece of the Indian-rubber. The 
windows of these coffee-houses are like those 
of a common English jail, being grated, and 
without any glass casement ; and, as the inha- 
bitants use no other stove to heat their chambers 
than the little brasiers before mentioned, it is 
probable that the climate is never rigorous. 
When we landed, we found the earth, at this PUnu. 
advanced season of the year, still covered with 
flowers, many of which were unknown to us. 
We collected five new species among the shrubs 
upon the northern side of the harbour, towards 
the point of the promontory ; a new species of 
Senecio, of Figivort, of Convolvulus, of Ruscus, and 
