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CHAP, containing very common flowers, and adorned 
with fountains. On the right hand, after entering 
the garden, appears the magnificent hiosk, which 
constitutes the Sultan s> summer residence ; and 
farther on is the orangery before mentioned, 
occupying the whole extent of the wall on that 
side* Exactly opposite to the garden gates is 
the door of the Charem, or palace of the women 
belonging to the Grand Signior ; a building not 
unlike one of the small colleges in Cambridge, 
and inclosing the same sort of cloistered court. 
One side of this building extends across the 
upper extremity of the garden, so that the 
windows look into it. Below these windows 
are two small green-houses, filled with very 
common plants, and a number of Canary-birds. 
Before the Charem windows, on the right hand, 
is a ponderous, gloomy, wooden door ; and this, 
creaking on its massive hinges, opens to the 
quadrangle, or interior court of the Charem 
itself. Still facing the Charem, on the left hand, 
is a paved ascent, leading through a handsome 
gilded iron gate, from the lower to the upper 
garden. Here is a kiosk, which will presently 
be described. Returning from the Charem to 
the door by which we first entered, a lofty wall 
on the right hand supports a terrace with a few 
small parterres : these, at a considerable height 
above the lower garden, constitute what is now 
