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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![THREE Hundred Thoufand Pounds a Year are next appropriated, ^redfech0on^ to defray the Charges of the numerous Offices, dependent on the Great ot; Bajhaw, and other neceffary Ufesirl relation to the Pojts, incumbent on fiicli Men, as are deputed by, and thence fubfervient to the Great, Supream, and Arbitrary Monarch of the Conquer'd Egypt. THE Third Three Hundred Thoufand Pounds a Year are ftill employ’d, Theiart in bearing the Expences ol the many thoufand zealous Pilgrims, who refort, third, hoi* each Year with a Bigotted Edith, to the great Rendezvous at Cairo, whence <lpply they all fet out with wonderful Devotion, and a fuperftitious Ignorance, in order to compleat the neceffary Pilgrimage to Mecca, their Falfe Prop-hep's Birth Place. THESE three above-mtm’d Ufes are the only ones, to which the Turks apply the Sums, they gain from the Egyptian Tribute, nor is it law¬ ful by the fix’d Decrees of the Grand SignioPs Empire, that the Sums thence rifing, fhauld beany ways perverted to what Ufe foever, devious from the ends, to which they are appointed. ’T IS true, nine hundred thoufand Pounds a Year are no great Income, Wi,y the Re. from the Conqueft of a Country, fo exceeding famous for her venue is fo known Fertility ; that* when the Romans conquer’d her of old, fine gain’d lma],‘ the Name of Granary to that fuccefsful Empire. But as Wealth decreafes by a long continued Series of destructive War, ’tis no great wonder, if we now find Egypt far from the Capacity, of yielding fuch amazing heaps of Spoil and Plenty, as in ancient Ages blefs’d the Plunder of Victorious Legions. HOWEVER, tho’ the Sum, exacted thence by the Grand Signior, is hovv the a fmaller Burden than they well might bear, yet are the Turks lb dexte- Turks make roufly skill’d, in managing Authority, to the Advantage of their Purfes, ^ccyhe defic'n and their Mailer’s Safety, that the vanquijlPd Natives are not only crufh’d, beyond all hopes of growing rich, but kept below the very poffibility of framing, with the fmalleft ffiadow of Succefs, a dangerous Rebellion. CHAP. XXXVII. I ■ . ■ • }1 , , V • - •>-(*- ' ■w ' i 'i1. rri.i' ■ Of the Egyptian Catacombs, and the Mummys, which are found in the Ancient Sepulchre! of their • Dead. BY the foregoing Defcriptions of Cairo, Memphis, Baby ton, and the Stupendious Workmanfhip of thofe prodigious Pyramids, whofe outward Magnitude, interior Paffages, and fubterraneous Cavities, have fo deferv’dly ftil’d them the Worlds Chief Wonder ; the Cu¬ rious Reader may have form’d a Notion, no ways difagreable, of the valu¬ able Antiquities, whofe fill remaining Splendours fpeak amazingly, the former Grandeur of the Egyptian Nation.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30450895_0319.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
