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40 and ummariy dipatched in the Eatern manner. The buildings are in the Gentoo and Morique tyle; and the houes of the great art o contrived that their gate-ways are defenible againt any udden irruption of a few armed men. The private apartments are backwards for the greater ecurity of the women, of whom the Moors, epecially, are extremely jealous. They have always, at leat, one room, in each dwelling, where a fountain is kept playing in the middle of it, by the murmurs of which they are lulled to leep, and refrehed by the coolnes it diffues through the apartment. Their aloons, which they call diwans, entirely open on one ide