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Epistolae Duae, Quarum altera De Moribus ac Institutis Turcarum agit: Altera Septem Asiae Ecclesiarum notitiam continet
Secondary Title (i.e. Proceedings Title): Editions of this work: Remarks upon the manners, religion and g...Periodical Title: Publication Type:book Authors:Smith, Thomas Editors: Publisher: Place of Publication:Oxford Publication Date:1672 Alternate Date (i.e. Conference Date): Volume: Issue: Start Page: End Page: Abstract:An account of Smith's travels in Asia Minor. John Woodward reference a passage where Smith describes a "Wall near Philadelphia, said to be made
of Christians Bones, by the Turks at their taking the City . . . as an Instance of the Turkish Barbarity. The passage in Smith's English translation is thus:
there being about a mile and a half out of Town to the South, a thick wall of mens bones consusedly cemented together with the stones; in all probability raised by his command: (for sure none but such a Barbarian would have done it) in complyance perchance with some rash vow that he had made, when he lay fretting and storming before it” (Remarks upon the manners, 241-42).
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