This Town of _Ancyra_, was our 9th Stage from _Constantinople_. It is a Town of _Galatia_, sometimes the Seat of the _Gauls_, called by _Pliny_, _Tectosagum_; nor was it unknown to _Strabo_: Though perhaps the present Town is but part of the old Town, called in the Canons, _Anguira_. Here we saw a stately Superscription, and a Sampler of those Tables, wherein the Atchievments of _Augustus_ were summarily comprehended. I caused as much of it, as we could read, to be transcribed. It is cut in the Marble Walls of that Structure, which heretofore was the Town-hall; but is now demolished, so that one part of it is visible to those that enter on the right Hand, and the other to those that enter upon the left. The top Chapiters are almost entire; the Middle is full of Clefts, and the lowermost Part of it is so battered with Clubs and Hatchets, that it cannot be read; which Loss cannot be sufficiently lamented by all Lovers of Learning; and so much the more, because the Commons of _Asia_, dedicated this City to _Augustus_. Here also, we were Eye-witnesses of the dying of that Cloth, I spake of before, made of Goats-wool, and how they Camlet it, or give it its Water-colour; ’tis done thus. They pour Water upon it, and by means of a Cloth-press, cause it to receive that Colour. That is counted the best, which is most variegated in every part; and if, in any Piece, the Water-colours do not deeply and uniformly appear, that Piece, though of the same Colour, and made of the same Wool, is valued at some Gilders less than another, because it is not so deeply tinctured. The better sort of _Turks_, in their old Age, are usually clothed with this Sort of Cloth, and _Solyman_ himself used to wear Vests of it; but Green is a Colour disused much by _Christians_; and the rather, because the _Turks_ commend it upon a Superstituous Account, as being worn by their Prophet _Mahomet_ in his older Days. A black Colour is counted unfortunate, and is disliked by them; and, when they see any Man so clad, they look on it as an ill _Omen_; so that when any of ours did approach the _Bashaw’s_, in a black Habit, they look’d a-squint on us, and made sad Complaints; and the Truth is, none of their own appear in black, but either one that is desperately poor, or else so overwhelm’d with some great Calamity, that he regards not what Cloaths he wears. A Purple Colour is a creditable Colour with them; only it is an Omen of much Bloodshed in Time of War: But the ordinary approved Colours among them, are the _White_, the _Yellow_, the _Sea-Green_, the _Violet-Colour_, and _Mouse-Colour_, &c. The _Turks_ ascribe very much to _Augury_, and _Omens_, Good or Bad, so that it hath been known, that some _Bashaws_ have been removed from their Places and Offices, by reason of a Fall from their Horse; as if that were an _Omen_ of some ill Luck, which is averted from the Publick, by falling on the Head of that private and particular Person; who is thereupon degraded.