[Footnote 80: For the restitution of Constantinople and the
Turkish foundations, see Cantemir (p. 102-109), Ducas (c. 42
(p. 317, ed. Bonn) ), with Thevenot, Tournefort, and the
rest of our modern travellers From a gigantic picture of the
greatness, population, etc., of Constantinople and the
Ottoman empire (Abrege de l'Histoire Ottomane, tom. i. p.
16-21, we may learn that, in the year 1586, the Moslems were
less numerous in the capital than the Christians, or even
the Jews.]