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The City of the Sultan - Volume 2

Miss Pardoe

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .he heated floor: and opening a door at the upper end, I walked into the bath-room. Here I found between forty and fifty women, whom for the first moment I could scarcely distinguish through the dense steam, arising from a marble basin that occupied the centre of the floor, and which was about a hundred feet in circumference.

The natural spring that supplies this basin is so hot that it requires considerable habit to enable an individual to support its warmth, when the doors of the bath are closed. The effect which it produced on me was most disagreeable; the combined heat and smell of the water were overpowering; but the scene was altogether so extraordinary, that I compelled myself to endure the annoyance for a few minutes, in order to form an accurate idea of an establishment of which I had heard so much.

The spring, escaping from a neighbouring mountain, is forced by pipes into the bathing-hall, where it pours its principal volume into57 the m. . . Read More

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1830’ların İstanbul’unu , özellikle merasimlerini , günlük eğlenceleri ve yaşamı herhangi bir diplomatik kaygı duymadan gözlemleyen Julia Pardoe , İstanbul’u ve insanlarını samimi bir şekilde anlatmış. Bu kitaptan seçmeleri 18. Yüzyılda İstanbul ismi ile Inkilap basmış.