or gowns over them, to hang down to the feet, and button close to

the wrists; and all these lined with furs, to make them

sufficiently warm. As to a warm house, I must confess I greatly

dislike our way in England of making fires in every room of the

house in open chimneys, which, when the fire is out, always keeps

the air in the room cold as the climate. So I took an apartment in

a good house in the town, and ordered a chimney to be built like a

furnace, in the centre of six several rooms, like a stove; the