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number of tailors, kept constantly at work in cha.p 
making Turkish habits, to be sent to the capital, v , — ' 
The cause of this manufactory originates in 
their getting the German cloth at a lower rate 
than the merchants in Constantinople; which 
enables them to undersell, at a great profit, the 
makers of Turkish apparel in that city. 
The situation of Shumla, with regard to its 
fertile plains, somewhat resembles that of Le- 
badea in Greece : it is placed between two 
mountains ; and it resembles Lebadea in ano- 
ther particular, namely, in the unwholesomeness 
of its air. Some of our party paid dearly for 
the day we spent here ; being attacked by in- 
termittent fever ; particularly the author, who 
experienced this malady as violently as in any 
part of his travels, and was not free from it 
until he arrived in Transylvania. Perhaps this 
might be attributed to our having ventured to 
eat animal food; which should be avoided as 
much as possible, where there is the slightest 
suspicion of a malaria. The Agha sent us a 
lamb, according to a Turkish custom, as a sacri- 
fice and a present for the festival of the Courban 
Bairam. Prince Muruzi and Signor Francopulo Courhan 
came to dine with us ; but it was observed that 
all who tasted animal food were more or less 
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