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before ; and the greatest terror prevailed among chap. 
the inhabitants, who upon these occasions are ' 
exposed to plunder from the promiscuous mul- 
titude of barbarians, drained from the provinces 
of Anatolia to man the fleet. It often happens 
that these men have never seen the sea, until 
they are sent on board. Whenever the fleet 
comes to anchor, they are permitted to land, 
and then they are guilty of the greatest dis- 
orders. The Capudan Pasha himself told us 
that it was in his power to bring them to 
order, by hanging some ten, or a dozen, a 
day; "but then,'' said he, ** how am I to spare 
so many menf 
The wine of the Dardanelles is sent to Con- 
stantinople, to S7nyrna, to Aleppo, and even to 
England.. It will keep to a great age, and, if 
the vintage be favourable, is preferable to that of 
Tenedos. Both sorts are of a red colour. That 
of the Dardanelles, after it has been kept twenty 
or thirty years, loses its colour, but not its 
strength. It is made chiefly by Jeius, and called, 
in Italian (the language spoken throughout the 
Levant), F'ino della Legge ; because it is pre- 
tended, that the Jews, by their law, are 
prohibited the adulteration of wine. Its price, 
when of a good quality, equals eight paras the 
oke ; about two-pence a bottle. 
