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pay eight-pence a week for a folio volume, 

 fix-pence for a quarto, and four-pence for 

 all others of a fmaller fize. As foon as the 

 time, allowed a perfon for the periifal of 

 the volume, is elapfed, it muft be return- 

 ed, or he is fined. The money arifing in 

 this manner is employed for the falary of 

 the librarian, and for purchafing new 

 books. There was already a fine colledi- 

 on of excellent works, moft of them Eng~ 

 Ufi', many French and Latin, but few in 

 any other language. The fubfcribers were 

 fo kind to me, as to order the librarian, 

 during my ftay here, to lend me every book*, 

 which I fhould want, without requiring 

 any payment of me. The library was open 

 every faturday from four to eight o'clock 

 in the afternoon. Befides the books, feveral 

 mathematical and phyfical inftruments, and 

 a large colledion of natural curiofities were 

 to be feen in it. Several little libraries 

 were founded in the town on the fame foot- 

 ing or nearly with this. 



The Court Houfe ftands in the mid-die of 

 Market flreet, to the weft of the market, it 

 is a fine building, with a little tower in 

 which there is a bell. Below and round 

 about this building the market is properly 

 kept every week. 



The building of the Academy ^ is in the 



wertern 



