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Large and fumptuous refervoirs are found in various parts of 
the city, where water is given to paflengers. Baths, adorned 
with marble, and provided with every poffible conveniencej and 
plenty of water, alfo abound. The attendants are extremely 
dextrous, and the charge very reafonable. 
The Okals, or warehoufes, are fpacious, ftrongly built, com- 
modious and clearu Thefe are for wholefale goods. For retail, 
are the bazars, as Khan Chalil^ Hainfaw'i^ &c. extenfive build- 
ings, with convenient fhops, each trade in its allotted quarter, 
and copioufly fupplied with every commodity. 
Through the greater part of the city the houfes are built with 
ftone, two, or fometimes three ftories high, with flat roofs. The 
windows of the upper ftories are latticed, the ground floor 
being either a £hop or having no windows to the ftreet. Some- 
times the lattices fuflSce ; a few have paper windows, fome of 
the rich have glafs. 
The houfes of the great chiefly furround Birket-el-fil^ a pool 
which receives the Nile water from the Chalige. The palace of 
a Bey contains a fquare court, one or two fides occupied by his 
Mamluks. Apart is the Harem. The room in which the Bey 
generally fits in fummer has a contrivance in the roof to admit 
a copious fupply of frefli air. In Kahira fire is only employed 
in cookery, the effeds of cold being fuflSciently obviated by 
warmer clothing. 
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