congreffes ; the other of Jupiter, filled Chryfadreus or with the
golden /word, which was near the city, and common to all the
Carians j who, as well as the Ionians, met at dated times to fa-
crifice, and to deliberate on their affairs. This affembly was
named the Chryfaorean fyftem or body, and was compofed of
villages; the greater number giving the cities, to which they
belonged, precedence in voting. The Stratoniceans, when the
fanCtuaries were reformed under Tiberius Csefar, produced before
the Roman fenate, by their deputies, the decrees of Julius
and Auguftus Csefar,' confirming to Jupiter and Hecate their
privilege of afylum.
W e found Jiipiter Chryfadreus mentioned twice on one
done j and in the wall of a fpatious court before the houfe of
the aga was an infcription ’ relating to both deities. The
preamble declares, that the city in many great and lading
dangers had been preferved by thefe its tutelar gods ; that their
ftatues in the fenate-houfe furnifhed the mod; glaring evidence
of their divine power, and of their prefence ; that crouds facri-
ficed and burned incenfe before them, fupplicating or returning
thanks, and tedifying their religious veneration of them ; the
fenate therefore decrees, that thirty boys, of good families, be
chofen to go daily two and two in proceffion, with their governors,
to the fenate-houfe, all dreffed in white, crowned with
olive, and bearing each a branch in their hands, with the citha-
rid and herald, to fing a hymn, to be compofed by Sofander.
The done is in two pieces, the characters large, with ligatures
intermixed, and of a late age. In the fame wall were other
infcribed fragments; and near it an altar, and many marbles
emboffed with round fliields. This aga was polite and affable
beyond any Turk we had feen. His Haram was impenetrable,
or, as we were told, would have afforded us feveral
infcriptions.
1 -See Chifiml!,
W e
W e have mentioned the tobacco-plant, as growing in the
plain of Mylafa. Here the leaves were now gathered, and
hanging in drings againd the walls of the cottages to dry. The
ufe of it and of coffee has been prohibited under fome Sultans.
The.fmoking it, now fo univerfal, was in 1610 a.novel practice
even at Condantinople ’ ; where a Turk had been recently led
about the dreets in derifion, with a pipe thrud through his nofe,
as a punidiment, to deter others from following his example.
The Turks were then drangers to the plant, and content to
purchafe the refufe o f the Englifh market, not underdanding
•the commodity. The knowlege of coffee and of its virtues was
imported from Arabia j and by the Turkifh account, the fird
coffee-houfe was edablifhed at Condantinople in 1554.
F r o m the-traveller, who has remarked the inexperience of
the Turks in the American weed, we learn, that the Englifh
were then unacquainted with the oriental berry. He defcribes
the Turks as fitting in houfesrefembling taverns, fipping a drink
•called coffa, in little china difhes, as hot as they could endure,
hlack as foot, and tading not much unlike it. To this defcrip-
tion of coffee he fubjoins, “ Why not the black broth of
“ the Lacedaemonians ?” a quedion, I believe, hitherto unan-
fwered. I fhall reply to-it, that for making their black broth,
■ the cook was furnifhed with fait and vinegar, and bid to pro-
cure.what was wanting from a victim. This, it has been conjectured,
was blood. The epicure will not lament, that the
entice recipe has not reached us.
> Sandys.
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