among the Turks, porters and hewers of wood, in the court of the grand signior; who also mount on horseback when the emperor rides out. Part of them also, who, for that purpose, must be castrated, keep watch at the gates of the first and second courts of the seraglio. The first are called capigi, and their commander capigi pascha.

BALTIC sea, a great gulf surrounded by Sweden, Russia, Courland, Prussia, Pomerania, and Denmark. The king of Denmark levies a tax at Elsinore on every ship that enters the Baltic sea. It is remarkable that this sea neither ebbs nor flows, and there is always a current sets through the Sound into the ocean. It is generally frozen over three or four months in the year.