MODE OF LIGHTING. 



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which being fitted to one of the many spouts 

 from which the water flows, serves as a con- 

 ductor from the fountain to the pitcher, 

 which, being filled, the servant puts on his 

 shoulder and carries home. The natives are 

 very particular in the purity of their water, 

 and frequently send for it from a consider- 

 able distance from their residences, that they 

 may obtain it from the clear and sparkling 

 springs, which are fin,er in some particular 

 districts. 



The streets are very badly lighted : one 

 feeble glimmer from a paper lanthorn at the 

 end of each quadra, just serves to render 

 darkness visible, and, unless the moon is up, 

 the place is enveloped in obscurity. My 

 friend Colonel Manby, who so gallantly dis- 

 tinguished himself with his brave Albions in 

 aiding the cause of struggling liberty, has laid 

 a proposal before the government for lighting 



