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of their costumes I shall subjoin here. The ordinary habit of a 
Turk is too familiar to almost every European to need a repeti¬ 
tion in detail, but there are some peculiarities here, annexed 
to different degrees and professions, which I shall briefly notice. 
The head-dress generally distinguishes the calling of the wearer; 
and the horsemen or military troopers, are cognizable at a great 
distance, from their high cylindrical black caps. This towering 
sort of helmet is bound round the brows with a scanty slip of 
many-coloured linen or silk, while the uniform which accom¬ 
panies it, is a brown jacket; something like that worn by the 
common people, only more ornamented with braidings of red, 
blue, and yellow cords down its back and shoulders. This, with 
a pair of enormously wide trowsers, hanging low over large red 
boots, make up the garments ; but the accoutrements are not 
quite so simple, — a broad embroidered belt strapped round the 
waist, contains a pair of long pistols; a sword is slung across the 
shoulder by a worsted cord; while half a dozen pouches with 
other et-ceteras, increase the picturesqueness of his appearance, 
and the incumbrances which impede his motions. 
Some orders of the people wear the Courdish red turban-bag; 
but their rank seems a little above the peasants, or domestic 
servants, who do not presume to cover their heads with any 
thing more obtrusive than a close skull-cap of any coloured 
cloth, wrapped round with an ample piece of dirty linen, either 
plain or figured. The well-known flowing garment, and large 
turban of the Turk, are common alike to the trades-people and 
highest classes ; the chief difference lying in the colours, and 
materials : but the gaiety, and even splendor, of them all, often 
exceed imagination, and so completely confuses ranks to the 
eye, that an inexperienced foreigner, gazing at a procession of 
