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A RESIDENCE

AT

CONSTANTINOPLE,

IN THE YEAR

1827.

WITH NOTES TO THE PRESENT TIME.

"Shall we, whose souls are lighted

With wisdom from on high,

Shall we to men benighted

The lamp of life deny ?"-Heber.

BY JOSIAH BREWER,

MISSIONARY TO THE MEDITERRANEAN.

NEW HAVEN:

PUBLISHED BY DURRIE & PECK.

**********

L. S.

DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty fourth
day of December, in the fifty fourth year of the Inde-
pendence of the United States of America, DURRIE &
********* PECK, of the said District, have deposited in this of-
fice, the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as proprie-
tors, in the words following, to wit:-

"A residence at Constantinople in the year 1827, with notes to
the present time.

"Shall we, whose souls are lighted

With wisdom from on high,

Shall we to men benighted

The lamp of life deny?—Heber.

• By Josiah Brewer, Missionary to the Mediterranean.”

In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, enti-
tled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the
copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors
of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also
to the Act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled,
An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the cop-
ies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of
such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending
the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etch-
ing historical and other prints."

CHA'S. A. INGERSOLL,
Clerk of the District of Connecticut.

A true copy of Record, examined and sealed by me,

CHA'S. A. INGERSOLL,

Clerk of the District of Connecticut.

PRINTED BY HEZEKIAH HOWE.

eiss. 14 June, 192%.

DEDICATION.

To the members of the Boston Female Society, for the promotion of Christianity among the Jews,

This volume, the result of observations during a missionary tour performed under their patronage, is respectfully and gratefully dedicated by the author.

New Haven, Dec. 4, 1829.