CONSTANT! N OPLEy 
dwelling houses; where, in the diminutive pannelling of the 
wainscot, and the form of the windows, an evident similarity 
appears to what is common in Turkey. The khans for the 
hankers seem to rank next to the mosques, among the public 
edifices of any note. The Menagerie shown to strangers is 
the most filthy hole in Europe, and chiefly tenanted by rats* 
The pomp of a Turk may be said to consist in his pipe and 
his horse: the first will cost from twenty to twenty thousand 
piastres. That of the Capudan Pacha bad a spiral ornament 
of diamonds from one end to the other; aud it was six feet in 
length. Coffee cups are adorned in the same cosily manned 
A saddle cloth embroidered and covered with jewels, stirrups 
of silver, and other rich trappings, are used by their grandees 
to adorn their horses. The boasted illuminations of the 
Ramadan would scarcely be perceived, if they were not 
pointed out. The suburbs of London are more brilliant every 
Bight in the year. 
As to the antiquities of Constantinople, those which are 
generally shown to strangers have been often and ably de¬ 
scribed. There is a method of obtaining medals and gems 
which has not however been noticed ; this is, by application to 
the persons who contract for the product of the common 
sewers, and are employed iu washing the mud and filth of the 
city. In this manner we obtained, for a mere trifle, some in¬ 
teresting remains of antiquity; among which may be men¬ 
tioned, a superb silver medal of Anthony and Cleopatra; a 
sliver medal of Chalcedon of the highest antiquity 7 ; and an 
intaglio onyx, representing the flight of J^neas from Troy,, 
There is every reason to believe, that, within the precincts of 
this vast city, many fine remains of ancient art may hereafter 
be discovered. The courts of Turkish houses are closed from 
observation; and in some of these are magnificent sarcophagi 
concealed from view, serving as cisterns to their fountains. In 
the floors of the different baths are also, iu all probability* 
many inscribed marbles; the characters of which, being 
turned downward, escape even the observation of the Tiufe, 
In this manner the famous trilingual inscription was disco¬ 
vered in Egypt. No monument was, perhaps, ever more calcu¬ 
lated to prove the surprising talents of ancient sculptors, than 
the column of Arcadius, as it formerly stood in the forum of 
that emperor. According to the fine representations of its bas- 
reliefs, engraved from Bellini’s drawings for the work of Ban- 
duxi, the characteristic features of the Russians were so 
