and this is washed in each month with lye or soap, as are also
the workshops of the lower trades, the kitchens, the pantries
the barns, the store-houses, the armories, the refectories, and
the baths.

Moreover, the clothes are washed at the pillars of the peri-
styles, and the water is brought down by means of canals which
are continued as sewers. In every street of the different rings
there are suitable fountains, which send forth their water by
means of canals, the water being drawn up from nearly the bot-
tom of the mountain by the sole movement of a cleverly con-
trived handle. There is water in fountains and in cisterns,
whither the rain-water collected from the roofs of the houses
is brought through pipes full of sand. They wash their bodies
often, according as the doctor and master command. All the
mechanical arts are practised under the peristyles, but the spec-
ulative are carried on above in the walking galleries and ram-
parts where are the more splendid paintings, but the more sacred
ones are taught in the temple. In the halls and wings of the
rings there are solar time-pieces and bells, and hands by which
the hours and seasons are marked off.


G.M. Tell me about their children.


Capt. When their women have brought forth children, they
suckle and rear them in temples set apart for all. They give
milk for two years or more as the physician orders. After that
time the weaned child is given into the charge of the mistresses,