Port Anne. $67 



greater heat. I found a difficulty of breath- 

 ing, and it feemed to me as if my lungs could 

 not draw in a fufficient quantity of air. I 

 was more eafed when I went down into the 

 vallies, and efpecially along the Wood-creek. 

 I tried to fan the air to me with my hat, 

 but it only encreafed the difficulty of breath- 

 ing, and I received the greater! relief when 

 I went to the water, and in a fhady place fre- 

 quently fprinkled fome water in the air. 

 My companions were all very much weak- 

 ened, but they did not find fuch difficulty in 

 breathing, as I had done ; however towards 

 evening the air became fomewhat cooler. 



June the 29th. Having compleated 

 our boat, after a great deal of trouble, we 

 continued our journey this morning. Our 

 proviiions, which were much diminifhedj 

 obliged ua to make great hafte; for by 

 U 2 being 



Marcus Antoninus were obliged to make laws againft it, but 

 neither were they long obferved, for we find foon the 

 Council 0/ Lao dice a obliged to prefcribe a canon againft this 

 brutal cuftom, and notwithftanding this we find loon after 

 that not only perfons of all ranks, but even clergymen and 

 monks bathed promifcuoufly with women, in the fame: 

 baths ; and from thence, it is probable, this cuftom patted 

 among the RuJ/tans, when chriftianity took place among 

 them. Near the bath, in Ruff.a, is commonly a pond, 

 where the people plunge in, when quite hot, and in win- 

 ter they welter in the fnow ; and Saturdays it is common 

 to fee before the bath naked men and women, each having 

 a bundle of rods in their hand, with which they gently 

 beat one another, when in the bath. F. 



