IV 
Tobacco 
nists. 
IQO CONSTANTINOPLE. 
CHAP, has never been equalled, considering the low 
prices for which these are sold. In the same 
shops are also found paper lanterns, which are 
so ingeniously contrived as to be adapted for 
the pocket, but will draw out to great length 
when required for use. The Turks carry them 
through the streets at night, at the end of their 
long pipes. Lastly, in passing through all the 
Turkish towns, a traveller will not omit to 
notice the shops for tobacco, and the manufactures 
of pipe-tubes ; for these, indeed, constitute the 
first and principal sights that attract his 
regard. The cleanliness with which the to- 
bacco is kept and exposed in neat glass jars, 
and the many varieties of this herb offered for 
sale, are worthy of attention. That which 
bears the highest price is of a fine golden 
colour, and is deliciously fragrant; being so 
totally different from the stinking weed com- 
monly used in England, that the smell of it is 
pleasing to the most delicate olfactory nerves ; 
and we never met with any person who disliked 
the mournful satisfaction of giving her an honourable interment, at 
Rome, in the coemetery of his ancestors. This celebrated traveller died 
in 1652, at the age of sixty-six years. The best edition of his Travels is 
not that which is here cited; but a later, printed at Rome, in four vols. 
4to. in 1662. The French edition, in four vols. 4to. printed at Paris in 
1670, is perhaps the worst extant ; but there are many other. 
