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heaped up, under a few half-rotten mats that 
fcarcely covered it, the whole produce of the 
laft harveft, intended for the coafumption of 
this numerous family. 
The furniture of this fplendid apartment 
was perfedly analogous with the building itfelf. 
TJnder the window was fixed a rough-hewn 
table, upon which a kettle of boiling water and 
a few broken bafms were conftantly ftanding, 
Three fmall trunks ferved at once both for feats 
and clofets, upon which planks were placed, 
"when there was company, to anfwcr the pur- 
pofe of benches. In a third corner, by the 
fide of the corn, was the fopha of the mafter 
and miftrefs of the houfe. This fopha, or bed 
if you will, confided of four flakes driven into 
the ground, upon which was nailed a bullock's 
hide by way of mattrefs, and upon this mat* 
trefs was a number of fheep-fkins, greafy, 
{linking, and ill-dreffed, which formed the beds 
and bedding of the reft of the family, who flept 
promifcuoufly one among another upon the 
floor. Laftly, againft the wall oppofite the 
window was a handmill for grinding corn, 
Such was the luxury in which revelled the in^^ 
habitants of this magic abode. 
