lute and one for each other instrument. And when all alike in
service join their hands, nothing is found to be wanting. The old men
placed at the head of the cooking business and of the refectories of the
servants praise the cleanliness of the streets, the houses, the vessels,
the garments, the workshops, and the warehouses.

They wear white under-garments to which adheres a covering, which is at
once coat and legging, without wrinkles. The borders of the fastenings
are furnished with globular buttons, extended round and caught up here
and there by chains. The coverings of the legs descend to the shoes and
are continued even to the heels. Then they cover the feet with large
socks, or, as it were, half-buskins fastened by buckles, over which they
wear a half-boot, and besides, as I have already said, they are clothed
with a toga. And so aptly fitting are the garments, that when the toga
is destroyed, the different parts of the whole body are straightway
discerned, no part being concealed. They change their clothes for
different ones four times in the year, that is when the sun enters
respectively the constellations Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, and
according to the circumstances and necessity as decided by the officer
of health. The keepers of clothes for the different rings are wont to
distribute them, and it is marvellous that they have at the same time
as many garments as there is need for, some heavy and some slight,
according to the weather. They all use white clothing, 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 peristyles, 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 bottom of the mountain by the sole
movement of a cleverly contrived 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 speculative are carried
on above in the walking galleries and ramparts where are the m