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Lady Mary Wortley Montague

CHAPTER IX
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The next room is a very large one paved with marble, and all round it, raised, two sofas of marble, one above another.

There were four fountains of cold water in this room, falling first into marble basins, and then running on the floor in little channels made for that purpose, which carried the streams into the next room, something less than this, with the same sort of marble sofas but so hot with steams of sulphur proceeding from the baths joining to it, it was impossible to stay there with one's clothes on.

The two other domes were the hot baths, one of which had cocks of cold water turning into it, to temper it to what degree of warmth the bathers have a mind to.
"I was in my travelling habit, which is a riding dress, and certainly appeared very extraordinary to them.

Yet there was not one of them that shewed the least surprise or impertinent curiosity, but received me with all the obliging civility possible.

I know no European court where the ladies would have behaved themselves in so polite a manner to a stranger.


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