The present state of Turkey: or, A description of the political, civil, and religious constitution, government, and laws, of the Ottoman empire; the finances, military and naval establishments; the state of learning, and of the liberal and mechanical arts; the manners and domestic economy of the Turks and other subjects of the Grand Signor, &c., &c. Together with the geographical, political, and civil, state of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. From observations made, during a residence of fifteen years in Constantinople and the Turkish provinces
Thornton, Thomas, -1814