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couple of his pupils hither every week, took me to thi$ 

 rare fpectacle. The houfe has two entrances ; we went 

 in through that on the left hand. The other is appro- 

 priated to the fair fex. Juft behind the door fat a 

 man, to whom my conductor gave a few copeeks for 

 himfelf and for me. When we had paired through the 

 fore-houfe, we came into a fpacious quadrangular yard ; 

 which to the left and facing us was bounded by two long- 

 low buildings, and inclofed to the right by a wooden 

 fence, or fabore, about five feet high. The whole 

 yard was filled with human beings in the drefs of para- 

 dife, only without the fig leaves. One part employed 

 in various ways, others repoting. But, before I pro- 

 ceed to mention their employments in the yard, I 

 mull: give fome defcription of the two buildings I juft 

 now fpoke of. 



The houfe on the left hand is fitted up within fide 

 like our ftables of the better fort, where each horfc 

 Hands feparated from the next by a wooden partition* 

 In each of thefe frails flood a bench and a fmall table. 

 Here they laid their cloaths who were going to bathe* 

 in the keeping of a guard. To thefe buildings an 

 overfeer is appointed, to fee that nothing is embezzled 

 or exchanged. For fuch a fiand each perfon pays a 

 denufhka, or half a copeek, and is in perfecl fafety in 

 regard to the property he brought with him. In cafe 

 any thing fhould be miffing of the articles belonging 

 to him, it mull be made good. This is perhaps the 

 only affurance-office, where the affurance-- money re- 

 mains always the fame, while the value of the articles 

 allured is as various as poffible, and often .bears fg 

 fmall a proportion to it. 



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