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shops for silk, and productions brought from over se£ ? 
and from the place called Elcaisseria. This part is al- 
ways well provided with European goods imported by 
sea, as also with those brought from the east by cara- 
vans, and from the interior of Africa. 
The Elcaisseria, as well as many of the other streets 
that are filled with shops, are covered with wood shaped 
into arabesques, with openings or windows of various 
forms to admit air and light. These streets are in general 
kept very clean; the crowd assembled there every day is 
as numerous as at the fair, and might be roughly compa- 
red to the Galleries of the Palais Royal at Paris. The Ma- 
hometan beauties frequent it,but always wrapt up in their 
mysterious hhaiks, which, however, they are cunning 
enough to open now and then. 
Fez contains a great number of public baths. Some 
of them are good and contain different rooms, which 
are heated to different temperatures; so that you may al- 
ways choose that which suits you best. In all these 
rooms you find large basons into which hot water is 
continually coming from the boilers placed behind, 
and also numerous stone bottles, which serve either for 
bathing or for making the necessary legal ablutions. I 
have already observed, that on entering these rooms, all 
the body is covered with a subtle dew, because the at- 
mosphere is completely saturated with the vapour of the 
hot water. 
I took my thermometer to one of the best public 
baths, and placed it in one of the most retired, and of 
course the hottest room. It rose there to 30°* Reau- 
mur; two rooms farther off where I dressed myself mar- 
ked 22°. In the open air it was at 9°. In the same 
exterior room was a fountain which throws a great 
* 100 Fahrenheit 
