The shops now began to be opened.
They resemble neat entrance halls, having no front wall.

The goods were exposed for sale either in large open boxes or on tables, behind which the shopkeepers sit and work.

In one corner of the shop, a narrow staircase leads up into the dwelling-house above.
Here, as in Turkish towns, the same regulation is observed of each trade or calling having its especial street, so that in one nothing but crockery and glass, in another silks, and so on, is to be seen.
In the physician's street are situated all the apothecaries' shops as well, as the two professions are united in one and the same person.

The provisions, which are very tastily arranged, have also their separate streets.

Between the houses are frequently small temples, not differing the least, however, in style from the surrounding buildings: the gods, too, merely occupy the ground floor, the upper stories being inhabited by simple mortals.
The bustle in the streets was astonishing, especially in those set apart for the sale of provisions.