A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman Empire in all its branches; with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks in general ... from a serious observation, taken in many years travesl thro' those countries / [Aaron Hill].
- Aaron Hill
- Date:
- 1710
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman Empire in all its branches; with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks in general ... from a serious observation, taken in many years travesl thro' those countries / [Aaron Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Lemnos and its Prod lift, Ter¬ ra SigiltiU. Horn. Iliad, j. Chios, and its Etymology. A defcription of the City, and Inhabi¬ tants. The Mann- faftures of the Pi and. ’tis a dangerous Place to Sail in, but efpecially by Night, the I/lands lying fo extreamly clofe, that oftentimes a Ship is driven forcibly upon a Rocky Shore in open Day by Strefs of Weather. NOW let us vifit Lemnos, a confiderable I/land, not fo much for its extent of magnitude as the unthought Advantages, accruing to the Turks, it’s prefent Matters, from the yearly Exportation of a valuable Earth, call’d Terra Sigillata, from the fmall Impreflion of a Seal, which marks the Balls, wherein ’tis fold, with Turkijh Characters, and fo prevents the danger of an Impofition on the Merchant. IT was in ancient Times etteem’d of weighty Virtue in Medicinal Performances, and gather’d Yearly by the Priefts of Venus with a thoufand Ceremonies, and often mingled with the Blood of Goats, in order to be of¬ fer’d as a Sacrifice to that imaginary Goddefs. LEMNOS was formerly of no fmall Note, for being taken notice of by Homer,as the Place, whereon the Limping Vulcan fell, when Jupiter thought fit to kick him out of Heaven. vHcT';) y'h> y.i o.hXoT dKt'tutvcU fx.ty.etu ret Lift, nrej'oi Ttrctyuv a.7rl CtiAb ■d-urorttrio/o, Hay J' 7][xa.(> <a, yet J' vzAia x.araJ'CvTt KciTTTrzaoy tv Anyveo. When once I dar’d oppofe my Brother Jove, And Warr’d againtt him in the Realms above, He fnatch’d me by the Foot, then rais’d me high, And hurl’d me headlong from the Starry Sky •, Downward all Day I tumbled, and begun To draw near Earth at fetting of the Sun, On Lemnos then I fell. NEXT, CA/w claims our Obfervation, anciently receiving that Deno¬ mination from the Greek Word fignifying Snow, becaufe her Moun¬ tains frequently are cover’d with it, now her Name is chang’d to Zjo, or, as fome pronounce it, Sio. ’Tis near an hundred thirty odd Miles in com- pafs, lengthning from the Southward to the Northern Point, and fubjeCt to the Turks, who notwithftanding, fulfer many Greeks to live among them, with far greater Privileges than they give to any of their Countrymen in o- tlier Places. THE Town of Sio is confiderably large, and made convenient by a fpacious Haven ; the City is defended by a Cattle of no little Strength, up¬ on a Hill exceeding tteep : The Buildings of the Town are very Neat, efpecially the Publick Ones, and the Inhabitants, I mean the Greeks, fo ve¬ ry merry in their eafy Slavery, that all night long a Stranger is diverted with their Songs and Dances, and their Inftruments of Mufick founding briskly thro’ the Streets: The Women, as efteem’d of old, are yet the Mittreffes of admirable Beauties, fram’d by Nature for an amorous Con- verfation, and pottetting fweetly the politeft Marks of gentle Affability: T hey frequently appoint a kind of Balls, and Merry-makings, which are gi¬ ven alternately from Houfe to Houfe, and fpend their Days in all the Gayety of Wealth and Liberty. 1 H E ProduCt of the Ifiand is the fineft Corn and Oyl, fome Silks, and Cotton, and the beft Sherbets, which can be made, by reafon of the Excel¬ lence ot a rich kind of Honey, found in Majtick Trees: i call them fo, becaufe](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30450895_0264.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
