CONSTANTINOPLE. 15/ 
to Constantinople, to the hazar we have now 
mentioned, and to Smyrna; whence they are 
exported to Hungary, Poland, Germany, France, 
and Russia. 
Another very curious sight at Constantinople is Dmg 
the hazar where the drugs are sold ; a long dusty 
covered place, like Exeter Exchange in London, 
but much larger. The powerful smell exhaled 
from the spices and simples here exposed to 
view, but particularly from the rhubarb, is per- 
ceived in the approach to this hazar : almost 
every vegetable production of the East, used, 
medicinally or as a perfume, and many mineral 
substances, are here offered for sale. Opium ap- 
pears in large black balls, or cakes, looking like 
Spanish-liquorice. These balls are cut smoothly 
with knives, to shew the interior of each mass ; 
and half a dozen, or more samples, at different 
prices, are placed together. The cheapest and 
worst opium is of a brown colour, filled with 
stalks and leaves : that of the highest price 
approaches almost to ajet-hlack, and is perfectly 
free from impurities. Other articles are, the 
ivood of aloes, incense, styrax, and all sorts of 
fragrant and other gums ; also the white oxide 
of arsenic ; and the red and yellow sulpliuret of 
arsenic, or realgar and orpiment ; of which last 
