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the ſtreets below, without excluding a free circulation of air. As to proviſions I cannot imagine that there is in the univerſe a better place. The great plenty of every article, which an unbounded influx throws into the market, renders; all kinds of eatables extremely cheap; wild fowl and game can be had at an eaſy rate; and nothing can exceed their ſallads and roots. Among the articles of luxury, which they have in common with other parts of the Eaſt, there. are public hummums for bathing, cupping, rubbing and ſweating, but the practice of champing, which is derived from the Chineſe, appears to have been known to the ancients, from the following quotations.
Percurrit
