Excerpt from original source: "Borgas, formerly Arcadiopolis, is an inconsiderable town, situated between Kirkclisia and Caristran, about ninety miles to the north-west of Constantinople…The town consists of about four hundred Turkish houses, sixty Greek, and a few belonging to the Jews. It contains five mosques, one of which was built by Mohamed Bashaw, Grand Vizier to Solyman the Magnificent...The principal street is represented in the view; it contains a double range of shops, detached, as is customary in many parts of Turkey, from the dwelling-houses. These are secured at night by letting down the top shutters; and raising the lower ones which serve as tables or counters before the windows, when the shops are open, being supposed by props in an oblique direction. At this place great quantities of earthen-ware utensils of various sorts are manufactured, many of which are gilt, and highly ornamented. It is also celebrated for curious tobaco pipes."
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Imprint: Published by R. Bowyer, no. 80, Pall Mall
Excerpt from original source: "Borgas, formerly Arcadiopolis, is an inconsiderable town, situated between Kirkclisia and Caristran, about ninety miles to the north-west of Constantinople…The town consists of about four hundred Turkish houses, sixty Greek, and a few belonging to the Jews. It contains five mosques, one of which was built by Mohamed Bashaw, Grand Vizier to Solyman the Magnificent...The principal street is represented in the view; it contains a double range of shops, detached, as is customary in many parts of Turkey, from the dwelling-houses. These are secured at night by letting down the top shutters; and raising the lower ones which serve as tables or counters before the windows, when the shops are open, being supposed by props in an oblique direction. At this place great quantities of earthen-ware utensils of various sorts are manufactured, many of which are gilt, and highly ornamented. It is also celebrated for curious tobaco pipes."
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Imprint: Published by R. Bowyer, no. 80, Pall Mall
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