. A description of the East, and some other countries . ding, fupportedby pillars. I went to vifit two convents further to the fouth, and was fhewn afpot of ground, near a winter torrent, about two miles in corapafs,which, they fay, after a great flood, funk down in fuch a manner thatthe trees and houfes were overturned; and I fawthe marks of this accidentftill remaining, which, one would imagine, muft be owing to fome ca-vity under ground, the flood loofening one fide, which fupported are three fmall convents, and a nunnery this way ; I did not feethem all, but I was at a large nunne
. A description of the East, and some other countries . ding, fupportedby pillars. I went to vifit two convents further to the fouth, and was fhewn afpot of ground, near a winter torrent, about two miles in corapafs,which, they fay, after a great flood, funk down in fuch a manner thatthe trees and houfes were overturned; and I fawthe marks of this accidentftill remaining, which, one would imagine, muft be owing to fome ca-vity under ground, the flood loofening one fide, which fupported are three fmall convents, and a nunnery this way ; I did not feethem all, but I was at a large nunnery near a village called Calamaria;they build or buy their apartments, half going to the head convent ofNeamone, and half to the relations of the deceafed; they cannot pro-fefs before they are twenty-five years old; and they may take the vowafter that age without probation; they are admitted by the abbefs, andhave no allowance, but live on their fortunes, or labour, for they havea dimothy manufadure in this convent. They may go out when they 4
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