gate, which I was told had a concealed pull, known only to him and the
priests, proceeds up-stairs and through the passage, rapping three times
at the door of the sick-room, which is opened by a nun in attendance,
after she has given one rap in reply. When he has visited his patients,
and prescribed for them, he returns by the same way.

5th. Next beyond this sick-room, is a large unoccupied apartment, half
divided by two partial partitions, which leave an open space in the
middle. Here some of the old nuns commonly sit in the day-time.

6th. A door from this apartment opens into another not appropriated to
any particular use, but containing a table, where medicines are
sometimes prepared by an old nun, who is usually found there. Passing
through this room, you enter a passage with doors on its four sides:
that on the left, which is kept fastened on the inside, leads to the
staircase and gate; that in front, to private sick-rooms soon to be
described.

7th. That on the right leads to another, appropriated to nuns suffering
with the most loathsome disease. There were usually a number of straw
mattresses, in that room, as I well knew, having helped to carry them in
after the yard-man had filled them. A door beyond enters into a store-
room, which extends also beyond this apartment. On the right, another
door opens into another passage; crossing which, you enter by a door--

8th. A room with a bed and screen in one corner, on which nuns were laid
to be examined before their introduction into the sick-room last
mentioned. Another door, opposite the former, opens into a passage, in
which is a staircase leading down.