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CHAP, dilemma, the Ambassador immediately asked us 
III. 
»• - ■ if we had any objection to taste the butter ; 
being convinced that none of his party would 
touch it, if we refused. We soon removed their 
fears ; but we could not convince them, either 
here, or in the journey afterwards, that yellow 
colour in butter was no proof of its inferiority. 
" The butter of Stamboul,'' they said, *• was 
white, and therefore purer '." 
jipril 30. — We went early to visit Baron 
Bruckenihal, after settling some dispute at the 
Custom-house; and were employed the whole 
morning in the examination of his collection of 
Pictures. Pictures; perhaps the largest in the possession 
of any private individual in Europe. It con- 
tains many works by all the best masters ; and 
they are indisputably originals. A part of his 
collection related to England. We saw ^ View 
oj London by old Griffier^, representing a fair by 
the side of the Thames ; all the persons present 
painted as wearing horns. This picture would 
'^l) Almost all the lutter oi Const antinnple, or Stnmhoul, as the Turki 
fjalJ their city, and indeed almost the o\\\y butter known iu Turkey, 
comes from the Ukraine, after being salted, and sent in skins or casks. 
(2) John Griffier was born at Amsterdam in 1645. He went to 
England, and settled in London. His son Robert, also a painter, was 
born in England in 1688. Robert was living- in 1713. 
