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the other three: it is clofely fliut up on three 
fides, that is, the Jback and two ends, and 
befides, a partition wall longitudinally from end 
to end divides it into two apartments, the back 
part totally dark, only three fmall arched aper- 
tures or holes opening into it from the front 
apartment or piazza, and little larger than jull to 
admit a man to crawl in upon his hands and 
knees. This fecluded place appears to me to be 
defigned as a fancfuary * dedicated to religion ^ 
or rather pried craft ; for here are depofited all 
the facred things, as the phyfic pot, rattles, chap- 
lets of deer's hoofs and other apparatus of con- 
juration ; and likewife the calumet or great pipe 
of peace, the imperial dandard, or eagle's tail, 
which is made of the feathers of the white eagle's 
tail f curioufly formed and difplayed like an 
open fan on a fceptre or ftaff, as white and clean 
as poffible when difplayed for peace, but when 
for war, the feathers are painted or tinged with 
vermiilion. The piazza or front of this building, 
is equally divided into three apartments, by two 
tranfverfe walls or partitions, about bread high, 
each having three orders or ranges of feats or ca- 
bins depping one above and behind the other;, 
which accommodate the fenate and audience, in 
the like order as obferved in the rotunda. The 
other three buildings which compofe the fquare, 
are alike furnifhed with three ranges of cabins or 
fophas, and ferve for a banqueting-houfe, to 
dicker and accommodate the audience and fpec- 
ratcrs at all times, particularly at reads or public 
entertainments, where all dalles of citizens relprt 
* SancTorium or facred temple ; and it is faid to be death for any pi. r- 
fon but the mico, war-chief and high prieft to enter in, and none are ad- 
mitted but by pemiiiTion of the priefb, who guard it day and night, 
f Vultur facra, 
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