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Letter XV. Prospect of saving from this Plan.and farm yards, and I know not what besides. As to running water,
it is, indeed, to every purpose a very agreeable circumstance, and,
under the ordinary Jail regime, a very desireable, possibly an essential
one. But many of the Lords and Commons make shift without it,
even at their villas, and almost all of them when not at their villas,
without ascribing any want of health they may labour under, to
the want of running water. As to my Contractor's boarders, they must
have water, have water, indeed, because every body must have water: but
under the provision I have made, for turning the operations of cleanliness
into motions of course, I should apprehend their condition might
still be tolerable, though they should have no other running stock of
that necessary element than what falls to the share of better men.
When the ground thus dearly wrung from the grasp of
luxury came to be covered, think what another source of expence was to be
opened, when over and above nine hundred roomy chambers for so many
persons to lie in, three other different classes of apartments were to be
provided, to I know not what number nor extent, for them to work in,
to pray in, and to suffer in, four operations, the scenes of which are
upon our plan, consolidated into one.
I need not add much to what I have said in a
former letter, about the tribe of subordinate establishments, each
of them singly an object of no mean expence, which it seems
to have been in contemplation to inclose within the fortress: I
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