20 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



Jitanica. Where the water gathers on the roofs, 

 Bryum murale and navel-wort {Cotyledon um- 

 bilicus) are found j and on dry walls Lichen -pa* 

 rietinus. 



Towers without fpires are put upon feve- 

 ral roofs : they have four fides, a height of 

 ibme yards, and command a fine view of the 

 town and the {hips. 



In the houfes of confuls, the colours are 

 hoifled upon fuch towers at the arrival, of 

 ihips. 



The doors are high, commonly folding 

 ones, and in the inner apartments often with- 

 out locks. 



The gates are fhut in the houfes of people 

 of rank, with a latch on the infide without 

 any handle ; but on the outfide is a little bell : 

 when this is pulled, the porter opens the gate 

 from the balcony by a firing, which pulls up 

 the latch, and thus opens one half of the 

 gates, which (huts of itfelf, by means of 

 weights, as foon as the porter lets go the 

 firing. But if any one comes in the night- 

 time, 



