BAGDAD.
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BAGDAD.


The following interesting account of
this city is extracted from travels in
Kurdistan," by J. B. Frazer, Esq. just
published:


81 think" says Mr.. Fraser, "of all
places ever was in, it is the most remark
able for every imaginable sort of noise,
and its inhabitants the most intolerably
obstreporous. The room | now occupy
has balcony over the street, with two
windows SO that every thing that passes
under, is as well heard as if it were going
on in the room. Before day have a
concert of cocks and hens from a neigh
boring yard this is followed by the live
ly beat of the 'revellez,' from the Se-
poys' quarter, which, in its turn, rouses
host of dogs these keep up very indus
trous running bass of barking, till the
donkeys begin to bray. BY that time the
neighboring Arabs, who have been driven
into the town by the disturbed state of
the country beyond its walls, have shaken
their ears, and begin to drive out to pas
ture the flocks of sheep and herds of cat
tie and camels they have brought in with
them for security. Assuredly Arab sheep
and cattle have the deafest ears to the
voice of the charmer of any animals on
earth, or they are grievously abused by
their drivers for such routing and roar
ing as is made to induce the beasts to
move along, never heard in any other
place. BY that time
the rest Of the bipcd inhabitants are astir
Thc quiet Turk shulllles silently along,
nor do the Christians or Jews commit any
violent trcspass upon the sense of hearing;
but there are more Arabs-ay, this street
is their great thoroughfare, and here and
everywhere they rush along in droves,
like the less brutal animals they drive or
ride, hallooing to each other and 10 all
they pass, often maintaining conversa-
ton at the top Of their tremendous voices,
with some equally clear-pipcd brother, at
quarter of miles distance as for ap-
preaching nearer for convenience of COM
munication, they never dream of such
thing lungs are cheaper than legs, it is
clear, at least in Bagdad, Then there is
but | spare you the further detail of
town criers, saints routing out their peal
ing CALCULATIONS, beggars and fakeers thun-
dering forth their petitions in the name
of Allah and the Prophet; and, worse
than all, professed singers practising their
voices as they pass along. In Short
Hatchett's, in Piccadilly, when all the
mails and coaches are under despatch
Cockspur street and Charing-cross, when
the seasons is fullest and the cries are
loudest-or Smithfeld on special mar
ket day-or Billingsgate, or all of these
together, must strike and yield the palm
for variety and intensity of noise, to Bag
dad, the true legitimate successor of old
Babel"


"The white asses and black negroes,
though not SO noisy, attract equally the