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store-rooms for the kitchen and bake-house, and dwell- 

 ing-rooms for the inspectors and other officers who were 

 lodged in the house. 



A very spacious hall, no feet long, 37 feet wide, and 

 22 feet high, with many windows on both sides, was 

 fitted as a drying-room ; and in this hall tenters were 

 placed for stretching out and drying eight pieces of 

 cloth at once. This hall was so contrived as to serve 

 for the dyer and for the clothier at the same time. 



A fulling-mill was established upon a stream of water 

 which runs by one side of the court, round which the 

 building is erected ; and adjoining to the fulling-mill 

 are the dyer's-shop and the wash-house. 



This whole edifice, which is very extensive, was fitted 

 up, as has already been observed, in the neatest manner 

 possible. In doing this, even the external appearance 

 of the building was attended to. It was handsomely 

 painted without as well as within ; and pains were taken 

 to give it an air of elegance as well as of neatness and 

 cleanliness. A large court in the middle of the build- 

 ing was handsomely paved ; and the ground before the 

 building was levelled and covered with gravel, and the 

 approach to it from every side was made easy and 

 commodious. Over the principal door or rather gate, 

 which fronts the street, is an inscription denoting the 

 use to which the building is appropriated; and in the 

 passage leading into the court there is written in large 

 letters of gold upon a black ground, " No ALMS WILL 



BE RECEIVED HERE." 



Upon coming into the court, you see inscriptions 

 over all the doors upon the ground floor leading to 

 the different parts of the building. These inscriptions, 

 which are all in letters of gold upon a black ground, 



