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The price of thescbaths is a mouzouna, called by the 
Europeans blanquilk; its value is about two French sols, 
or an English penny. 
There is a stove under the room of these baths to 
support the heat they require. There is also a caul- 
dron from which the hot water is conveyed by means 
of a pipe, which is opened and shut with a cock; ano- 
ther pipe lets in the steam of the water from it. This 
steam is increased when the water is poured on the hot 
floor; by this operation the atmosphere is filled with hu- 
midity, perpetually augmenting, till it produces the ef- 
fect which I have mentioned, upon all who enter the 
room. 
CHAPTER IV. 
Architecture. — Mosque. — Music. — Amusements.— Female exclamations, — 
Sciences.— Saints. 
The architecture in Moorish, or Western Arabia 
resembles in nothing the ancient or modern Oriental. 
Far from finding in the present Moorish architecture 
that elegance and boldness which distinguish the an- 
cient Arabian architecture, all its works exhibit marks of 
the grossest ignorance. The buildings are constructed 
without any plan, and seemingly at random, and with 
such an ignorance of. the first rules of the art, that in 
some of the first houses I found the staircase without 
the smallest ray of light, so that it was always necessary 
to burn lamps on them. In general the porches and 
staircases are very shabby, though the house be of the 
largest size, 
