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persons," said he, putting his finger to his char 
forehead, " have a head for these matters, ' ,— — ' 
and some have not. Let us see whether or 
not Buonaparte will make a breach there again. 
A breach is a breach, and a wall is a wall T' 
The Bath of Acre is the finest and best 
built of any that we saw in the Turkish empire. 
We all bathed here, during our stay. Every 
kind of antique marble, together with large 
pillars of Egyptian granite, might be observed 
among the materials employed in building 
it. A great quantity of cotton is exported commerce 
from this place. The country abounds in "^^'''■''• 
cattle, corn, olives, and linseed. In almost every 
town of Syria there is a fabric for the manu- 
facture of soap ; but every thing depends 
upon the will of the Pasha: the produce of 
the land was exported, or not, as it pleased 
Djezzar, who cared very little for consequences. 
His avarice, it is true, prompted him to 
increase the income of his custom-houses ; 
but his ignorance, as it was observed of him 
by Baron de Tott\ prevented his discovering, 
that " speculations of revenue, when they 
strike at industry, cannot, for that reason, ever 
be calculated on any principles of commerce." 
(1) Memoirs, vol. II. p. 32G. ed. ion</. 1785. 
