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This town contains two hundred houfes and about 

 twelve hundred inhabitants. It has two principal ftreets 

 of about eight yards broad, croffing each other in the 

 middle at right angles, with two by-itreets running from 

 North to South. They are not paved, but are laid with 

 gravel, and kept remarkably clean. 



Hcufes. -pj-^g houfes are fpacious, uniformly built of wood, of 



only one ftory, not more than fourteen feet high, plaif- 

 tered and white-waflied ; they are conftrucSled round a 

 court yard of about feventy feet fquare, which is ftrewed 

 with gravel, and has an appearance of neatnefs. Each 

 houfe confifts of a fitting room, fome warehoufes 

 and a kitchen. In the houfes of the wealthier fort 

 the roof is made of plank ; but in meaner habi- 

 tations of lath covered over with turf. Towards the 

 ftreets moft of the houfes have arcades of wood pro- 

 jelling forwards from the roof like a penthoufe, and 

 fupported by ftrong pillars. The windov/s are large 

 after the European manner, but on account of the dear- 

 nefs of glafs and Ruffian talk are generally of paper, 

 excepting a few panes of glafs in the fitting room. 



The fitting room looks feldom towards the ftreets : 

 it is a kind of fliop, where the feveral patterns of 

 merchandize are placed in recefles, fitted up with fhelves, 



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