Malcolm, James Peller: First Impressions Or Sketches from Art and Nature, Animate and Inanimate (London, 1807)

KINGS WESTON. 2$J
" Are you a Mussulman ?" " Yes." " Have
you vistted Mecca ?" <£ No."
" I am de Freemason, and come from Con-
stantinople ; a merchant. I have met with very
great loss. I am cast away upon de coast of Nor-
way, and loose every ting : much above 1200
guinea. I come, I travel, I go to my country I"
" Have you been in London ?"
"Yes."
" Well, how do you like that city ?"
(i Ah ! London very good town, but no good
like Constantinople. There de poor man live
cheap: here my breakfast cost one milling lix-
penee, my din—two tre. At Constantinople
fowl lix-pence, meat two pence, butter two
pence. It is war ruin England."
I could not but observe, after I had separated
from the Turk, who was proceeding to Wales,
that his mind was most disagreeably tinctured
with national prejudice ; and I confess that circum-
stance led me to doubt, wherher he was not a
mere itinerant pedlar, rather than a merchant of
Turkey; and yet his manners and appearance
were dignified beyond thole of persons of inferior
station.
Kingsweston hill is the segment of a large
circle, extending nearly North and South, parallel
with the Severn. The surface, from East to.
West,