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and bafon for gold fifli; a cafcade ; an arbor of bamboo 

 or vine interwoven with flowering fhrubs ; or fome other 

 elegant contrivance, of the like nature. 



Befides thefe feparate habitations, in which the ladies 

 are privately viflted by the patron, as often as he is dif- 

 pofed to fee them, there are, in other larger recefTes of 

 the thickets, more fplendid and fpacious buildings, where 

 the women all meet at certain hours of the day, either to 

 eat at the public tables, to drink their tea, to converfe, 

 bathe, fwim, work, romp, or to play at the mora, and 

 other games known in China ; or elfe to divert the patron 

 with mufic, finging, lafcivious pofture-dancing, andadting 

 plays or pantomines; at all which they generally are very- 

 expert. 



Some of thefe ftructures are entirely open; the roof 

 being fupported on columns of rofe-wood, or cedar, with 

 bales of Corean jafper f or upon wooden pillars, made in 

 imitation of bamboo, and plantane-trees, furrounded with 

 garlands of fruit and flowers, artfully carved, being 



painted 



