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Author:	Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750.
Title:	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. ... By Aaron Hill, ...
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THE DEDICATION, To The QUEEN.

THE PREFACE.

A LIST OF THE SUBSCRIBERS NAMES.

THE HEADS Of the Two and Fifty CHAPTERS Are as follow.

The following ERRATA, which escap'd the Press, the Reader is desir'd to Correct with his Pen, and pardon accidental Literal Faults, from the same Occasion.

CHAPTER I. Of the Vast Extent of the Turkish Empire.

CHAP. II. Of the Turkish Policy.

CHAP. III. Of the Civil Government of the Turks.

CHAP. IV. Of the Government Military.

CHAP. V. Of their Naval Force.

CHAP. VI. Of the Tenets of their Faith, and how differing from the Persians.

CHAP. VII. Of the Ceremonies of the Turkish Religion.

CHAP. VIII. Of the several Sects into which they are Divided.

CHAP. IX. Of the Turkish Studies, and how far Learning is encourag'd among them.

CHAP. X. Of the Turkish Morals.

CHAP. XI. Of their Trade, Foreign and Domestick.

CHAP. XII. Of the Turkish Habits.

CHAP. XIII. Of their Wives, Concubines, Ways of Courtship, and Forms of Marriage.

CHAP. XIV. Of the Turkish Women, in General.

CHAP. XV. Of the Turkish Customs, and Ceremonies in Conversation.

CHAP. XVI. Of the Turkish Funerals.

CHAP. XVII. Of the Publick and Private Buildings of Turkey.

CHAP. XVIII. Of the City of Constantinople.

CHAP. XIX. Of the Grand Signior's Seraglio, and particularly the Apartment of his Women.

CHAP. XX. Of the Revenues of the Turkish Sultan.

CHAP. XXI. Of the Greeks in their Modern State.

CHAP. XXII. Of the Graecian Religion.

CHAP. XXIII. Of the Armenians and their Religion.

CHAP. XXIV. Of the Copties.

CHAP. XXV. Of the Zinganees, or the Race of the Gypsies.

CHAP. XXVI. Of Sestos, and Abydos, the Castles Commanding the Hellespont, now call'd Dardanelli; and of the Ruins of Old Troy.

CHAP. XXVII. Of the Islands in the Aegean Sea.

CHAP. XXVIII. Of Alexandria in Egypt.

CHAP. XXIX. Of Aethiopia, and the Source of the Nile, with the Cause, Manner, and Continuance, of its Annual Inundation.

CHAP. XXX. Of the Government of Egypt.

CHAP. XXXI. Of the Learning and Morals of the Egyptians.

CHAP. XXXII. Of the Beasts, Birds and Serpents of Egypt.

CHAP. XXXIII. Of the Cities of Grand-Cairo, Memphis and Babylon.

CHAP. XXXIV. Of the Pyramids of Egypt, and of several New Discoveries therein, which were never yet Publish'd.

CHAP. XXXV. Of the Trade of Egypt.

CHAP. XXXVI. Of the Revenues of Egypt, and to what Ʋses they are Applied.

CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Egyptian Catacombs, and the Mummys, which are found in the Ancient Sepulchres of their Dead.

CHAP. XXXVIII. Of that Part of Egypt, formerly the Land of Goshen, and of the Passage of Caravans, thro' the Libyan Desarts.

CHAP. XXXIX. Of the Present State of the Holy-Land.

CHAP. XL. Of Jerusalem. The Sacred Antiquities therein con∣tain'd, and the Entertainment of Strangers in the Christian Monastery on Mount-Calvary.

CHAP. XLI. Of the Cities of Palestine, as they now are.

CHAP. XLII. Of the River Jordan, and the Dead Sea, or Lake of Sodom and Gomorrah.

CHAP. XLIII. Of the Present State of the Christian Religion in Palestine.

CHAP. XLIV. Of Arabia the Stony.

CHAP. XLV. Of Arabia the Desart.

CHAP. XLVI. Of Arabia, the Happy.

CHAP. XLVII. Of the Red-Sea.

CHAP. XLVIII. Of the Turks Pilgrimage to their Prophet's Birth-Place, and their Ceremonies at Mecca and Me∣dina Telnabi.

CHAP. XLIX. Of the Arabians, their Government, and way of Living.

CHAP. L. Probable Conjectures, concerning the Ten Tribes of Israel, which were carried away Captive, by Shalmanezer, King of Assyria. 2 Kings. Chap, 17.

CHAP. LI. Instructions to the Traveller, who wou'd make a Safe, and Profitable Journey into the Eastern Coun∣tries.

CHAP. LII. The CONCLUSION.