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main during divine fervice, and the clergy- 

 man is in the church, where the nuns 

 reach him his facerdotal clothes through a 

 hole^ for they are not allowed to go into 

 the veftry, and to be in the fame room 

 with the prieft. There are ftill feveral 

 other rooms and halls here, the ufe of 

 which I do not remember. The loweft 

 ftory contains a kitchen, bake-houfe, feve- 

 ral butteries, &c. In the garrets they keep 

 their corn, and dry their linen. In the 

 middle ftory is a balcony on the outfide, 

 almoft round the whole building, where 

 the nuns are allowed to take air. The 

 profpedl from the convent is very fine on 

 every fide ; the river, the fields, and the 

 meadows out of town, appear there to great 

 advantage. On one fide of the convent is 

 a large garden, in which the nuns are at 

 liberty to walk about ; it belongs to the 

 convent, and is furrounded with a high 

 wall. There is a quantity of all forts of 

 fruits in it. This convent, they fay, con-, 

 tains about fifty nuns, moft of them ad- 

 vanced in years, fcarce any being under 

 forty years of age. At this time there 

 were two young ladies among them, who 

 were inftructed in thofe things, which be- 

 long to the knowledge of nuns. They are 

 not allowed to become nuns immediately 



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