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10 exceeding fruitful; but the people so broke with slavery, and harrassed with the tyrannies, impositions, and oppressions of their priests, that it is not cultivated in the best manner. Its commodities are corn, wine, oil, rice silks, velvets, gold wire, armour, glasses, &c. The people are ingenious, and excel in the arts of statuary, architecture, music, and painting.

Of TURKEY in EUROPE.

This country comprehends Hungary, Greece, Little Tareary, and the Danubian provinces. The air of these countries is very different that of Greece pure and temperate, the others the contrary; the soil fruitful in corn, roots, and various sorts of fruit. There are several mines of copper, iron, quicksilver, antimony and salt. Their religion in Hungary, is that of Rome; in Greece, Little Tartary and the Provinces, Mahometism. Constantinople is the seat of the Grand Seignor, to whom they are subject.