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phyfician Mr. Gaulthier. On our arrival 

 we were received by the abbefs, who was 

 attended by a great number of nuns, for 

 the mod part old ones. We faw the church ; 

 and, it being Sunday, we found fome nuns on 

 every fide of it kneeling by themfelves and 

 faying prayers. As foon as we came into 

 the church, the abbefs and the nuns with 

 her dropt on their kneefe, and fo did M. 

 Gaulthier and myfelf. We then went to 

 an apartment or fmall chapel dedicated to 

 the Virgin Mary, at the entrance of which, 

 they all fell on their knees again. We 

 afterwards faw the kitchen, the dining hall 

 and the apartment they work in, which is 

 large and fine. They do all forts of neat 

 work there, gild pictures, make artificial 

 flowers, &c. The dining hall is difpofed 

 in the fame manner as in the other two 

 monafteries. Under the tables are fmall 

 drawers for each nun to keep her napkin, 

 knife and fork, and other things in. Their 

 cells are fmall, and each nun has one to her- 

 felf. The walls are not painted ; a little 

 bed, a table with a drawer, and a crucifix, 

 and pictures of faints en it, and a chair, 

 conftitute the whole furniture of a cell. 

 We were then led into a room full of young 

 ladies about twelve years old and below that 

 age, fent hither by their parents to be in- 



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