We propose to spend this day at _Magnesia_, in order to observe what may further occur there remarkable. To this end we were favoured with the company of a _janisary_ by one _Mahmút agá_, to whom this morning we made a short visit; he being the person, to whom at first we expected to have been recommended. The _janisary_ conducted us to the two principal _mosques_ of the city, to a religious college of _dervíses_, to a madhouse, and to an old _seraglio_, where the young princes of the Ottoman empire have formerly been educated. At the last of these there remain only the reliques of two or three rich _tiváns_, and a considerable number of stately old cypress trees, to witness the former grandeur of the place. At the madhouse we could observe nothing besides the bare walls of that hospital, and a brass mortar lying in the yard, which seemed to be remarkable for an old Latin inscription, which it bore, signifying that _it was made at Pisa_. The religious college is a fair stone building, consisting of one quadrangle, and that encompassed with a regular cloister, which is supported with pillars of the modern Greek module. The two _mosques_, which we mentioned, are distinguished from the rest, in that they are of royal foundation, an honour which is signified by the two _minarées_ belonging to them; whereas the other eighteen, with which this city is furnished, have but one a piece. Before each of these _mosques_ there is a square and regular area, containing a beautiful fountain in the middle, and enclosed on three sides with cells of religious Turks. The front of the _mosque_ makes the fourth side of the square, and is itself likewise adorned with a spacious portico supported with stately pillars, of which some only are topt with modern capitals. But as the capitals of the rest are of the old Corinthian order, so all the shafts appear plainly to be ancient; some consisting of natural and others of cast artificial marble, but both the one and the other bound near the pedestal with rings of massy brass. Before we could be admitted into the inside, we were obliged to comply with the zeal of the Turks, who always leave their shoes at the entrance of their _mosques_. Here we found them both much resembling one another, excepting that one was richer than the other; and whereas the roof of the other consisted of five cupolas, the roof of this was regularly contracted into one. We had now the liberty to view several copies of their _Alcoran_, and other books of Mahometan prayers, all curiously written and adorned with golden figures. The windows are furnished with excellent painted glass, full of flower work and religious inscriptions; and from the roof hangs a multitude of lamps, together with bright balls contrived to reflect the light, all of them well ranged in a beautiful and artificial manner.