This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 Excerpt: ...towel to gird up your loins, while a second is bound round your head, and a dry bathing mantle is thrown over your shoulders, to equip you for your retreat to the fame hall where you undressed and left your clothes. There you find a carpet thrown over the stone bench, and covered with a sheet; on which being seated, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 Excerpt: ...towel to gird up your loins, while a second is bound round your head, and a dry bathing mantle is thrown over your shoulders, to equip you for your retreat to the fame hall where you undressed and left your clothes. There you find a carpet thrown over the stone bench, and covered with a sheet; on which being seated, the last act of the Tartar Balnearii, or servants of the Bath, is to present you with a cotton cloth of a particular manufacture, having a long pile, to dry away the remaining perspiration, before you dress yourself to walk out11'. For this long operation, 2ft Such were the, functions of the Alipi in the Batlis of the Antients; and I cannot help thinking that the woollen glove is a happy substitute' for the strigilis or scraper of the Antients, whether of horn, silver, or gold, the materials of which it was made..7 The Aliptee likewise had charge of the lintea, or towels, in antiquity..8 J am told, what very probably they omitted to inform the fair Traveller of, that, besides the number of Turkish Balnearii which the has enumerated, there is still one who pollibly did not offer his service to the foreigner, who only bathed for curiosity. This man (or woman, according to the sex of the bather, ) performs the functions of the astriculae of the Antients, and is armed, like them, with volsellae, or hair-pincers, and a species of mineral soap (sound in the Taurida) which answers the purpose of the dorpax, or caustic ointment, of antiquity, in freeing the body of hair. Editor. you you pay at the door only two paras or three-pence halfpenny English'1'. Such is the account given me by a Gentleman who, as before said, went through' the whole on purpose narrowly to inspect the inside of the building, with the Tartar ceremony of bathing. I cann.
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