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Those who are disposed to smile at this display of 

 Eastern luxury would do well to reflect on the sums 

 they expend on what they consider as luxuries, and 

 then compare the real and harmless enjoyments de- 

 rived from them with the rational and innocent pleas- 

 ures here recommended. I would ask them, if a 

 statesman or a soldier, going from the refreshing 

 enjoyment of a bath such as I have described to the 

 senate or to the field, would, in their opinion, be less 

 likely to do his duty than a person whose head is 

 filled, and whose faculties are deranged, by the fumes 

 of wine. 



Effeminacy is no doubt very despicable, especially in 

 a person who aspires to the character and virtues of a 

 man ; but I see no cause for calhng any thing effemi- 

 nate which has no tendency to diminish either the 

 strength of the body, the dignity of sentiment, or the 

 energy of the mind. I see no good reason for con- 

 sidering those grateful aromatic perfumes, which in all 

 ages have been held in such high estimation, as a less 

 elegant or less rational luxur}^ than smoking tobacco 

 or stuffing the nose with snuff. 



Having given a slight sketch of a bath on a scale 

 of magnificence and refinement which will not suit 

 every person's circumstances, and may not accord with 

 every person's taste, I will now give another on a less 

 expensive and more modest plan. 



Let a small building be erected 14 feet 5 inches 

 long and 9 feet wide, measured within, and 7 feet high ; 

 and let it be divided into equal rooms of 9 feet long and 

 7 feet wide each, by a partition wall of brick 4I inches 

 wide, or equal in thickness to the width of a brick. 

 Let the outside walls of this little edifice be double, the 



