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greater heat. I found a difficulty of breath- 

 ing, and it feemed to me as if my lungs could 

 not draw in a fufficient quantity of air. I 

 was more eafed when I went down into the 

 vallies, and efpecially along the Wood-creek. 

 I tried to fan the air to me with my hat, 

 but it only encreafed the difficulty of breath- 

 ing, and I received the greateft relief when 

 I went to the water, and in a fhady place fre- 

 quently fprinkled fonie water in the air. 

 My companions were all very much weak- 

 ened, but they did not find fuch difficulty in 

 breathing, as I had done ; however towards 

 evening the air became fomewhat cooler. 



June the 2gth. HAVING compleated 

 our boat, after a great deal of trouble, we 

 continued our journey this morning. Our 

 provifions, which were much diminished, 

 obliged us to make great haftej for by 

 U 2 being 



Marcus Antoninus were obliged to make laws againft it, but 

 neither were they long obferved, for we find foon the 

 Council cfLaodicea obliged to prefcribe a canon againlt this 

 brutal cuftom, and notwithftanding this we find foon after 

 that not only perfons of all ranks, but even clergymen and 

 monks bathed promifcuoufly with women, in the fame 

 baths ; and from thence, it is probable, this cuftom pafTed 

 among the Ruffians, when chrillianity took place among 

 them. Near the bath, in Rujfia, is commonly a pond, 

 where the people plunge in, when quiie hot, and in win. 

 ter they welter in the fnow ; and Saturdays it is common 

 to fee before the bath naked men and women, each having 

 a bundle of rods in their hand, with which they gently 

 beat one another, when in the bath. F. 



