Rimmel, Eugene: Recollections of the Paris exhibition of 1867 (London, 1868)

THE PARIS EXHIBITION. l$l

ie furs are in great variety ; side. by side are found the
skins of the pole-cat, fox, stag, sable, jackal, tiger, lion,
leopard, wolf, beaver, goat, sheep, and black stillborn lamb
called Astrachhan.

The magnificent collection of medicinal and pharmaceutical
products sent by Faik-Bey (G. della Suda), director of the
Civil and Military Pharmacy, does honour to that, learned
practician. It contains an immense quantity of precious sub-
stances indigenous to the soil of Turkey, including opium,
which constitutes an important branch of trade.

Faik-Bey also sends an interesting series of essential oils,
made from native plants and flowers • that called Aivadane
has an aroma peculiarly sweet and penetrating.

Nineteen-twentieths of the otto of roses used by commerce
are produced by Turkey. This delicious essence is manu-
factured in the neighbourhood of Adrianople and is still
worth about its weight in gold.

Among the cereals, we notice four sorts of Indian corn,
yellow, red, white and black ■ also wheat, barley, rye, rice,
sorgho and millet.

Salonica, Janina, Adrianople and Trebizond supply that
fine tobacco which is so delightful when slowly smoked in
the narghilleh with its long winding tube and its bowl float-
ing in rose water.

The East is pre-eminently, as every one knows, the land of
embroidery. These people, so childish in their tastes, love to
decorate with rich and capricious arabesques every thing round
them, their clothing, their furniture,' their tapestries and the
trappings of their horses.