Among those wild Beasts, there had been a _Camelopardalis_, but she died a little before I came to _Constantinople_; however, I caused her Bones, which had been buried in the Earth, to be digged up, that I might inspect the Make of this Creature. It is an Animal a great deal taller in the Forepart than in the Hinder; and, for that Reason, it is unfit to carry a Man, or any other Burden. It hath an Head and a Neck like a _Camel_, but a spotted Skin like a _Leopard_, and therefore it is called by a Name derived from both, (_i. e._) _Camelopardalis_. It might have been imputed as a Piece of great Neglect in me, not to have visited the _Euxine_, especially as I had an Opportunity of sailing thither; seeing the Ancients used to account it as great a Piece of Curiosity to see _Pontus_, as to visit _Corinth_. Thither, therefore, I sailed with a prosperous Gale, and had the Privilege to be admitted into some of the Pleasure-Houses of the _Grand Seignior_. In the Valves of one of them, I beheld the famous Fight of _Selimus_ with _Ishmael_ King of the _Persians_, excellently described in Checker-Work. I had also the View of many of the Orchards and Groves of the _Turkish_ Emperor, which were seated in most pleasant Vallies. This I may say of them, That they ow’d little to Art, but almost all to Nature; so that I could not chuse but entertain such _Epiphonema’s_ as these in my Thoughts, O most pleasant Houses for Nymphs! O choise Seats for the Muses! O Retirements fit for the Learned! To deal plainly with you (as I told you before) they seemed to me, as it were, sensibly to bewail their present Posture, and to cry aloud to _Christians_ for their better Cultivation; and not they only, but much more _Constantinople_ itself, yea, and all _Greece_ too; which being, heretofore, the most flourishing Country in the World, is now wofully enslaved by _Barbarians_. Formerly it was the Mother and Nurse of all good Arts and liberal Sciences, but now, alas! it seems to call for that Culture and Humanity which once it delivered down to us; and, by Way of Requital, claims the Redemption of our common Religion from that _Scythian Barbarism_ under which it groans; and call it may long enough, for (with Grief may we speak it) _Christian_ Princes, now a-days, are otherwise employed; so that the _Turks_ do not more domineer over the poor _Greeks_, than Vices, such as Luxury, Gluttony, Sloth, Lust, Pride, _&c._ do over _Christians_, which so clog, enervate, and depress our Minds, that we can hardly look Heaven-ward, or aspire to any Thing that is truly Great and Excellent.