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the door-bell, and entered : various successive warerooms 

 or shops were thrown open to us, and by purchasing a few 

 trifling articles (which, by the by, were chiefly of English 

 manufacture), we gave perfect satisfaction to the brother 

 who took the trouble of conducting us. — The sisters all 

 dwell apart. The unmarried women wear a red ribbon 

 round the neck ; the married, a blue ribbon ; the widows, a 

 white one. It was now the dinner hour, and all work was 

 suspended. We received permission to walk every where 

 through the gardens and shrubberies. As we approached 

 a canal, *we happened to surprise some of the younger 

 sisters while amusing themselves in sculling a boat ; they 

 were making noise enough with their merriment, and were 

 probably the romps of the sisterhood : the unexpected in- 

 terview only increased their hilarity, while they paddled 

 off to their own quarters. In such establishments, all is 

 held in common ; or rather, all profits pass into the pocket 

 of the governor, who disburses for the general behoof, and 

 on whom the good of the body is considered as depending. 

 When a marriage is agreed on, a separate house is pro- 

 vided for the couple. They bring up and educate their 

 children, till they be fifteen years old, when they are inva- 

 riably dispersed to other Moravian settlements at a dis- 

 tance, almost all intercourse between the parents and chil- 

 dren then ceasing. — The Ziest Brethren have not spared 

 either pains or expence in making an excellent road to 

 Utrecht ; and, by the facility of communication thus afford- 

 ed, they have greatly increased the resort of visitants to 

 (heir establishment. 



The Dome. 

 Utreohl was an episcopal see for 700 years before the 

 Reformation. On our reiurn to town, we visited the an- 



