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placed a proportionately large tun, filled with watery 

 which runs into a tranfverfe box behind, pierced all 

 about with holes, from whence it fpirts as from a water- 

 ing-pot, upon the ground, in fuch manner, that, as the 

 cart proceeds, it waters a ftripe of three ells in breadth. 

 Thus, the cart being drawn up one line and down 

 another, the whole ftreet is in a fhort time watered all 

 over. This operation is performed on the boulevards 

 three times every day, in the morning, at noon, and 

 towards evening ; and the very regulation itfelf con- 

 tributes not a little to keep up the conftant and in- 

 numerable croud of carriages and people. 



But this croud is very different from that to be feen 

 in the narrow ftreets. It is moftly made up of credit- 

 able perfons, as it is a great promenade, and among 

 fuch as come hither merely pour fe promener, are a 

 number of others pufhing along about their buiinefs by 

 way of ftealth, as they have brought dirty fhoes and 

 {lockings with them out of the narrow ftreets, which 

 the opennefs and lightnefs of this render too confpicuous. 

 On this account, in almoft every ffreet that leads to 

 the boulevards, ftand ihoe-blacks with their benches 

 and brufhes, calling your attention to your fhoes, in 

 cafe you fhould be too much immerfed in thought to 

 take notice of them yourfelf. 



On the perpetual buftle in the fr.reets of Paris I have 

 made a number of trifling remarks, which mew, that 

 it is quite otherwife than I found it in other large cities ; 

 but they run too mucli into the inlignificant for being 

 otherwife than orally communicated. Suffice, the Pa- 

 rifian lings or whittles, that he may be fure to hear 

 hirofelf, in fpite of the tumult of his metropolis ; a. 



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