Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey . CONSTANTINOPLE. 249 have at all times put great faith in the juices of terebinthinateand balsamic shrubs ; the balsam of Mecca or Gilead is stillconsidered by the Turks as a sort of panacea in stomachic andchronic visceral affections. The difficulty of obtaining it pureand unadulterated, and its high price, are perhaps the realreasons why, like other vaunted remedies, it still maintains sohigh a reputation. On the warm baths, mosques and otherpublic buildings, as they have been already so ably described,I shall not enter int
Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey . CONSTANTINOPLE. 249 have at all times put great faith in the juices of terebinthinateand balsamic shrubs ; the balsam of Mecca or Gilead is stillconsidered by the Turks as a sort of panacea in stomachic andchronic visceral affections. The difficulty of obtaining it pureand unadulterated, and its high price, are perhaps the realreasons why, like other vaunted remedies, it still maintains sohigh a reputation. On the warm baths, mosques and otherpublic buildings, as they have been already so ably described,I shall not enter into detail. I was much disappointed both inthe exterior and interior of the mosque of St. Sophia, and thoughtmany of the other royal mosques more worthy of admiration,particularly those of the Sultans Soliman and Ahmet. At Scutari,we visited a small mosque which had been recently erected bythe reigning monarch, the unfortunate Selim : it is built of greymarble, and the interior being entirely covered with finelypolished slabs of that material, and adorned simply with
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