Excerpt from Present State of Turkey, Vol. 1: Or a Description of the Political, Civil, and Religious, Constitution, Government, and Laws of the Ottoman Empire
The great number of books which have already been written on the government and institutions of the Turkish empire, seems to render superfluous any further attempt to elucidate the subject. The accounts of dif ferent authors are, however, so various and discordant that it appears no less difficult to reconcile, 'than impossible to credit, their relations.
Some travellers have a'vowedly neglected any research into the peculiar customs, man.
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