TURKISH CHIMNEYS. 
757 
In perambulating the streets, could I have done it without 
being on the watch against contact with the multitudes we met, 
I might have been greatly amused by the masquerade appearance 
of the whole. The variety of costumes almost amounted to the 
ridiculous; and particularly the turbans, which in size are some¬ 
times carried to such a pitch as to convey the idea of being in¬ 
tended for caricatures of each other. The Janissaries do not 
content themselves with appearing so many Turkish Atlases, 
bearing huge effigies of the world upon their heads, but they 
must place them in those sorts of positions on their pates, as 
