“Tis hardly possible to see a more agreeable landscape. The city itself is very large and extremely populous. Here are hot baths, very famous for their medicinal virtues.” (56)

The author is describing her arrival in the city of Sofia. A very popular activity of this era, locals would go to “hot baths”, something equivalent to a modern day spa with things like a sauna used for cleansing purposes.

“But this climate, as happy as it seems, can never be preferred to England with all its snows and frosts, while we are blessed with an easy government under a king who makes his own happiness consist in the liberty of his people and chooses rather to be looked upon as their father than their master.” (57)

This quote pertains specially to mean reflecting the differences in government between that of England and Ottoman area. The government was extremely authoritative and wish to controlled nearly all aspects of life for its citizens, restricting the abilities of men (and women).

“The government here is entirely in the hands of the arms and Grand Signor with all his absolute power as much a slave as any of his subjects, and trembles at a Janissary frown”

Yet again, the author points out how the government is extremely controlling and rules with an iron fist, playing to the likes of ego driven men.

“’Tis very easy to see they have more liberty than we have, no woman, of what rank so ever being permitted to go in the streets without two Muslims, one that covers her face all but her eyes and another that hides the whole dress of her head, and hang half way down her back and their shapes are also wholly concealed by a thing they call a ferace with no woman of any sort appears without.”(71)

The above quotation reflects something still relevant today; the women were not permitted to show anything besides their eyes in public, which plays into the stereotype for women of this time.

“They are most of them Greeks and have little houses in the midst of their gardens, where their wives and daughters take a liberty not permitted in the town; I mean to go unveiled.”(74)

Here in this letter the women are allowed, taking their veils off their fave and revealing more than their eyes. In an earlier passage we see how women are NOT allowed to show their skin. Now, we see where the women actually did unveil themselves.