28 JOURNEY THROUGH THE SOUTH-WESTERN QUARTER

Khan's palace, together with the fepulchres. There are thirty-one metfhets in this town, moft of which are well built of free-ftone, and furrounded with lofty towers of elegant workman-fhip; farther, a church belonging to the Greeks, another to theArmenians; two fynagogues; and three Mahometan fchool-houfes. Two baths have been conftruded here in the Turkifhftyle, with handfome vaulted cupolas; and there are likewifefixteen large buildings, termed kbans, or inns, ferving both aslodgings for travellers, and as warehoufes, fix of which areuncommonly capacious, and are built of ftone; twenty-onetaverns; feventeen Tartar cofFeehoufes ; five mills turned by thebrook Dfhuruk-fu; and five hundred and feventeen fhops. Inthis number are included one hundred and twenty-one, wherefilk ftuffs, and other commodities, are expofed to fale by theyard; forty-one in which faddles, and other articles of leather,are elegantly manufadured ; one hundred and thirty-five forprovifions ; twenty-four for fhoe-rnakers; twenty-three, inwhich large and fmall Tartar knives, of great celebrity onaccount of their fuperior temper, together with other cutlery,are manufadured in great perfedion; five braziers' fhops; tenkept by barbers ; nineteen by taylors ; fix by filverfmiths ; fiveby gun-ftock-makers; three fhops, in which ready-made fhoesare fold ; nine timber-yards ; five manufadories of rope, cord-age, and hair-lines ; eight fhops kept by coopers; feven formaking and ielling felts of wool, and clokes of a fimilar texture,which are worn in rainy fealbns; four earthen-ware fhops ;five, where tubes for tobacco-pipes are made together withmouth-pieces; twenty bakers' fhops ; thirteen ' tan-yards, andMorocco manufadories; fix blackfmiths' forges; thirteen fhops,

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