Tho' their Year be according to the course of the Moon, and so the _Turkish_ Months run round the civil Year in a Circle of thirty three Years and a few odd Days, yet they celebrate the _Neuruz_, which signifies in the _Persian_ Tongue the New Year, the twenty first Day of _March_ (on which Day the vernal Equinox was fixed by the _Greeks_ and other Oriental _Christians_, in the time of the Emperor _Constantine_, who made no Provision for the προήγεσις ἰσημερινὴ, or Precession, which in process of Time the inequality between the Civil and Astronomical Year must necessarily produce) at which time the _Cadyes_ and other annual Magistrates, and Farmers of the Customs take Place, and reckon to that Day twelve Month again. In their civil Deportment and Behaviour one towards another, the left Hand is the more Worthy and Honourable Place, except among their Ecclesiasticks; and the Reason they alledge is, because they Write from the right Hand, and the Sword is worn on the left Side, and so is more at his disposal, who walks on that Hand. The chief _Vizir_ accordingly in the _Divan_ sits at the left Hand of the _Mufty_, each maintaining their Right of Precedence according to this way of decision. In their Moschs they sit without any distinction of degrees. Some of the more zealous _Turks_ cause to be engraven on their Scymitars and Bucklers a Sentence out of the sixty first _Surat_, which is concerning Fighting or Battle-array, and contains Incouragements to Fight in the _Way and Paths of God_, as the Impostor Words it; for which he assures them, besides assistance from Heaven to help them to get the Victory over their Enemies, and that _God will Pardon their Sins and bring them to Paradice_. Thus spirited with Zeal, a _Turk_ lays about him with Fury, when he is a fighting, and seems ambitious of dying to gain the delights of Paradice, at least indifferent whether he dies or lives.