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the produce of the common sewers of the chap, 
.IV. 
city, was stated in the First Section of this ^ 
Part of the author's Travels*. The circum- 
stance was made known to us by a Greek 
physician, one Dr. Inchiostro, who often sold 
coins and gems, purchased of these people, 
in the palaces of the Envoys. Having bought 
of him a few things thus found, he conducted 
us, upon our second visit to the city, to the 
place where the mud-iuashers carry on their 
labour. The persons so employed were Turks: 
we found them with large tubs tilled from 
the draining of the streets, which they passed 
through fine wire sieves ; and it is said that 
they become rich by the things thus obtained. 
We bought of them a carnelian intaglio, repre- 
senting Jpollo in the chariot of the sun, drawn 
hj four horses; one of the subjects common 
to the vases^ and gems of Greece, and especially 
prevalent among the antiquities of this city. 
But there is another source of wealth, for 
which a higher rent is paid ; namely, the 
sweeping of the bazar where the jewellers 
(2) See Vol. III. p. 62. OcUvo edit, 
(5) A most spirited representation of this subject occurs upon a 
terra-coHa vase discovered in a sepulchre at .<<</i«nj by Mr. Graham. 
The studs of the harness, and zone of the God, are gilded. 
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