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42 the treets below, without excluding a free circulation of air. As to proviions I cannot imagine that there is in the univere 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 eay rate; and nothing can exceed their allads and roots. Among the articles of luxury, which they have in common with other parts of the Eat, there. are public hummums for bathing, cupping, rubbing and weating, but the practice of champing, which is derived from the Chinee, appears to have been known to the ancients, from the following quotations. Percurrit