152 CONSTANTINOPLE. 
of porcelain resembling, in its lustre and polish, 
the surface of the murex. 
As almost every article of trade iw Con- 
stantinople has a separate market appropriated 
Bazar tot to the salc of it, so there is a special hazar 
Tank, or for that remarkable mineral called Keff-kiV, 
after it has been rudely manufactured into 
large howls for pipes, which the Turks export 
to Germany and to France; where they bear 
the names of Meerschaum., and Ecume cle Mer, 
from the circumstance of their floating in water. 
We had some dilhculty in finding out this hazar; 
but at last, being directed to Ouzoun Tcharchy, 
in the Fildjiandji Khan, we were conducted into 
a square court, like that of all other Khans, 
surrounded by a wooden gallery ; where, upon 
the floor of the gallery, we found the dealers in 
the pipe-howls made of Kejf-kil; each dealer 
having a large pile of those howls heaped upon 
a mat in an adjoining apartment. Hither resort 
those merchants, who export them by the 
caravans to Pest in Hungary, where they are 
re-manufactured. In the state for exportation, 
they are every one of them as large as a man's 
(1) Signifying literally, ^^ foam-earth." 
