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Gardens.- but a sight of those gardens does not necessarily imply that of CHAP 
the Charem, which is a part of the Sultan's palace very differently circum- ^* 
ctanced; and it is from confounding these together, that the author's ^ 
observations with regard to the Charem in particular have been applied to 
the Seraglio in general. De La Motraye indeed, by means of a French 
watch-maker, was enabled to see a part of the women's apartments in the 
Winter Palace ; but this is a very different part of the Seraglio, as appears 
from his account of a descent from it into the gardens, by means of a stair- 
case, {See Vol. \.p. 173. Lond. 1732,) which the author also ascended, in 
going from the Gardtn of Hyacinths, after he had quitted the Charem. 
