Population, Öev
MANY of the topics affigned to this chapter have been already
treated in the defcription <?f European Turkey. The Turkilh
empire id Aha is eftimated at 470,400 fipiare miles; and «he population
at ten millions; which, allpwipg eight foy the ifeurppeah;,part, ’wilf
render the total iS,6oa,©oo* : Geographers have,, contrary to the
united voice of travellers, confidferedEgypt as a Turkift). province 1
while in fa& it was only occafionally tributary, and was fiibjeift totf^e
military ariftocracy of the Beys. Some of the maritime Mahometan
powers have likewife aflifted the Porte with Ihips in time of wafc ; but
cannot with any jnftice be regarded as fub}e£t to the Ottoman feeptre..
The population of thefe African ftates is therefore foreign to the prefent
«onfideration.
CHAPTER III.
GiVi f i M f W n v i
■ Manners and. Cu/lrns.— Language. — Literature. — M^s^o^^U^iverfities^
*TtiïiesJnd Town^W^ce's. ^Roads.— inland 'Navigdm^Mdnyfaggres and .
. . LeWntfgCf. ■
T WE matihers and eriftonts of the"Turks have been;briefly deferibed Manners
SMHthe ^ffler cvdühaej'ilwtktlfd déepljr im- customs.
preffêd upon tb'e futgé<ft nations. . So.
Of banditti carry Oii their depredations almoft within fight of the capital*
Near E&teton-TtMrnefoït found encampments of Kurds/. In the fum-
&ër tfce K-üidS pafs fröm Moufotrl to <the: foèrtes ofithe Euphrates;
and they are riêver punched either for rctobery or mrirder. They arc
apaftoral people,' conducing their herds from one country to another;
Md 1Ö die 'i»më Of that traveller they extended as-far weft as Tokat; ,
■ where other hords, titofe of the Tuteomansvheganto nppèar* };Tht
AModÖftfe,'’tWbgte'-théy pC&fels? th^Ghriftiafii ifaith^ tetabi inany
finguldr manners'and euftoms; buf.they -are défetibed as a. fenfible arid
rióSté people, arid^the chief*èOftdüdtórs of the Levant'tisade,- for which
Sffiee théy1 étfe fmghlérlyQualified by frugality jind diterprire. They
fetnWfce the Eatychian peffuafiöft,, Which oMy adniits one nature ift
^efirs Cbriffi ; a tériet which renders themirrecoheileable enemies ^ of
the Greeks. ■ ' • • * * . ,
Turks, but -the tnode*rf life nearly Ifeuta to Arabs,; - llg ,
Cft s in fceep, witb tome goats, camels, and buboes. -He fee&s t o o r n t « f r e e m a n s of
■jibe charge of'rtibbeif;
P 2 The