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and Prince Miiruzi, to accompany us thither ; 
thinking that a garden might possibly be suited 
to Turkish taste ; but persons educated in Con- 
stantinople are insensible of the beauty or utility. 
of any objects connected with taste or with 
literature. We afterwards conducted them to 
Buda, to visit the palace: here nothing attracted 
the Ambassadors notice, excepting the rich 
tapestry. 
Among the few antiquities we saw in Pest, 
we noticed a large column of red porphyry in 
the principal street, and three pillars of the 
Giallo yintico marble in the coffee-house. The 
only remaining Turkish edifice is a mosque, now 
converted into a church. This town has 
neither fortifications nor citadel. The garrison 
consists of three battalions of infantrv, and a 
company of grenadiers. The religious sects Town of 
Pest. 
here are Rovian Catholic and Lutheran : the lan- 
guages, Hungarian and German. The commerce 
is carried on by Greeks : it consists in corn, wine, 
tobacco, pottery, horses, and almost every article 
of luxury or convenience. Perhaps the only 
manufacture known in the place, and which 
seems to be peculiar to Pest, is that of turning 
upon a lathe the large tobacco-pipe bowls of the 
Keff-kil, imported from Constantinople. Some 
