3$Z $2STH0Nt AN BATHS. 



The bath-rooms of the rich and opulent are generally 

 very neat and commodious* An antechamber or two 

 are fet apart for undreffing and dreffing, which ufually 

 contain beds, for going into on leaving the bath* 

 After fuch a fatigue one has great need of repofe. 

 From this violent agitation of the blood, Heep comes 

 uninvited, and with it new vigour, and a really new 

 life. In regard to cleanlmefs and order, the bath- 

 rooms conftruclied for the Ruffian foldiers cantoned in 

 Efthonia, are as it were in the middle ftate between the 

 two kinds before-mentioned. Prudent and humane 

 proprietors of feignories always provide fuch for the 

 foldiers that are quartered in their domains. Where 

 bathing-houfes are wanting for the military, the com- 

 mon men go into thofe of the boors, and the officers 

 frequent thofe of the owner of the eftate. Confederate 

 people do not willingly approve of the former, partly 

 on account of the too familiar intimacy thence arifing 

 with their female vaflals ; partly becaufe, (as I know to 

 have been the cafe in feveral manours between Reval 

 and Narva, on the Road to Petersburg) a few foldiers 

 will fpead the venereal difeafe in- an incredible manner 

 throughout whole villages. 



In the cities of Reval, Vefenberg, Pcrnau, Veifen- 

 ftein, &c. the bathing-houfes generally have a com- 

 pletely wretched, appearance. They are the property of 

 private perfons, but fbmd under the infpection of the 

 police. They are all heated regularly every Saturday, 

 fome likewife on Fridays and Wednesdays. The cuf- 

 tomers pay a fmalU matter for admiffion. In a large 

 bathing-houfe at St. Peterfburg, which I {hall prefently 

 6 ctefcribe* 



