Taxes on every Acre plow'd or dug, on every Cow, Horse, Bullock, Sheep, Goat, Ass or Camel throughout the Empire. Besides this and the Pole-Tax, every House, Boat and Ship, and every Marriage pays so much to the Grand Seignior; the Births indeed are Tax-free, to encourage them to breed; neither do they pay for their Burials for a very good Reason, the Grand Seignior being Heir in effect to every Man that dies in his Dominions. There are also Taxes on Paper and Leather, and in one Word, on every thing necessary to Health or Ease, or even Life it self, and if it were possible, I am persuaded, they would Tax the only Blessings they enjoy here, their Air and Sunshine. Yet with all this grinding the Face of the miserable oppress'd Subject, these Revenues are so ill manag'd, and the Officers employ'd in the Collection of them, such wicked Stewards to their cruel and rapacious Masters, that hardly one half is brought into the Treasury of what is paid them. Indeed if it were not for the vast hereditary Revenue, the Bassa's are obliged to pay in from their several Provinces, over and above all these Taxes, and the immense Wealth that the dayly Forfeiture of their Heads, to theirMa-
