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more, for the rebuilding of the fort, which 

 money coming into fome people's hands, 

 they would appropriate a great part of it 

 to themielves, and erect again a wretched, 

 inconiiderable fort. They further told me, 

 that fome of the richer! people in Albany 

 had promoted their poor relations to the 

 places for fupplying the army with bread, 

 &c. with a view to patch up their broken 

 fortunes ; and that they had acquired fuch 

 fortunes as rendered them equal to the 

 richer! inhabitants of Albany. 



The heat was exceflive to-day, efpe- 

 cially in the afternoon, when it was quite 

 calm. We were on the very fpot where 

 Fort Anne formerly flood ; it was a little 

 place free from trees, but furrounded with 

 them on every fide, where the fun had full 

 liberty to heat the air. After noon it grew as 

 warm as in a hot bath*, and I never felt a 



greater 



* In Sweden and in RuJJla it is ufual for people of all 

 ranks to bathe every week at leaft one time; this is done 

 in a flov€ heated by an oven, to a furprifing degree, and 

 which is enough to fti fie people who are not ufed to it : 

 for commonly the heat is encreafed by the hot fteam, 

 caufed by throwing red hot ftones into water. In thefe 

 baths, in Rnjp.a, the lower fort of people, men and wo- 

 men, bathe promifcuonfly,. as the Romans did, and from 

 whom, as Plutarch obferves, in his Life of Cato, the 

 Greeks adopted this indelicate and indecent cuftom, and 

 which fpread fo much, that the Emperor Adrian, and 



Marcus 





