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tive avocations. On entering these silent cells, and 

 traversing the long narrow passages, visiters can scarcely 

 divest themselves of the feeling of walking the tortuous 

 windings of some old castle, and breathing in the hidden 

 recesses of romance. The ceilings have an elevation of 

 but seven feet; the passages leading to the cells, or 

 kammers, as they are styled, and through the different 

 parts of both convents, are barely wide enough t'o admit 

 one person, for when meeting a second, he has always to 

 retreat. The dens of the kammers are but five feet 

 high, and twenty inches wide, and the window, for 

 each has but one, is only eighteen by twenty-four 

 inches; the largest windows affording light to the 

 meeting rooms; the chapels, the saals, and even the 

 kammers, or dormitories, are hung and nearly covered 

 with large sheets of elegant penmanship, or ink paint- 

 ings ; many of which are texts from the scriptures, exe- 

 cuted in a very handsome manner, in ornamented 

 Gothic letters, called in German, Fractur-Schrifter, 

 They are done on large sheets of paper, manufactured 

 for the purpose at their own mill, some of which are put 

 into frames, and which admonish the resident, as well as 

 the casual visiter, which ever way they may turn the 

 head. There are some very curious ones : two of 

 which still remain in the chapel attached to Saron. — 

 One represents the narrow and crooked way, done on a 

 sheet of about three feet square, which it would be 

 difficult to describe ; it is very curious and ingenious : 

 the whole of the road is filled up with texts of scripture, 

 adverting the disciples of their duties, and the obliga. 

 tions their profession imposes upon them. Another 

 represents the three Heavens. In the first, Christ, the 

 Shepherd, is represented gathering his flock together ; in 

 the second, which occupies one foot in height, and is 



