other Uſes. There are a vaſt Number of Caverns under ground, ſome of which were built for Places of Penance, others for Convenience. In ſome there are narrow ſtone Benches, which, by the exceſſive Dampneſs, are overgrown with Moſs, but all are dark, and the very Entrance to them choaked up with Weeds and Briars; ſo little Veneration do the preſent Inhabitants of this Iſland pay to Antiquity, or the Memory of what was ſo precious to their Forefathers, who were formerly ſo very religious, that when they went abroad, they put on a Winding-Sheet, to ſhow they were not unmindful of Death.
Tho' the Rivers in this Iſland afford great Plenty of excellent Water, a Well belonging to this Nunnery is ſaid to have exceeded them all; but has been, notwithſtanding the many extraordinary Properties aſcribed to it, of late ſuffer'd to dry up.
Here have alſo been many ſpacious Gardens for the Convenience and Pleaſure of the Nuns, but I have heard a melancholly Account of the ſevere Try-
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