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cannot be fecn but two or three hours every day, viz. from 

 eleven before noon to one after noon. In the new city- 

 there are gutters or fewers below the earth to conduft the 

 water and impurities from the houfes and ftrcets to the river j 

 but in the old city there are none of thefe. 



" As the houfes are, in general, five or more ftories high, 

 and the ftreets narrow, it is eafy to conceive the thicknef^of 

 population, and, of courfe, the vaft quantity of impiuily that 

 comes into the ftreets every day, which, with the water and 

 other liquids poured in likewife, keep always there a vaft 

 quantity of dirt. A great fum of money is appropriated, I 

 know, and fomc pains taken, to prefervc the cleanlinefs of 

 the city : but without entering into the difcuffion how this 

 money is employed or difpofed of, which is but very little 

 interefting to our prefent inquiry, it is true that very often 

 I have been obliged to make a great turn to go a Ihort dif- 

 tance, bccaufe it was impoflible to crofs the llreet throuoh 

 the dirt; and very often I have feen dogs, cats, and other 

 dead animals, lie in the ftrcets. 



■ « There is in every houfe (chiefly in the new city) a privy, 

 I with a canal which goes up to the higheft ftory; bccaufe, as 

 ;thc feveral ftories are inhabited by diftcrcnt families, they 

 iwant ftich a convenience in every one : but this canal emifs 

 l^Iways a very bad fmell, by the accumulation of impurities 

 Iw.thu. us walls, which, fron, the form of its conftrudion, 

 cannot be waftied but with water let in by a fmail orifice 

 or hole. There is alfo, in mai^y houfes, a place in the infide 

 of the fireet-door for making water, which contributes its 

 portion of bad fmell; and the houfes arc in general not 

 tcry clean. 



" Bcfides all thefe fources of p-.trid cxiialations, there are 

 t great many wharves, and nmch naked fliore, which, belnff 

 .ncovered by the ebb-tide, prefent to the fun a furface co! 

 •ercd Willi dirt and fea-weeds undergoing putrid fermenta- 

 .on. The mouths of the fewers [ have mentioned above go 

 9 the wharves, and are likewife bare at low water. The fluid 

 ^ wliich 



