Bartholinus too, from the accounts of the same Travellers would have been supplied with excellent materials for composing his abovementioned Treatise, _On the physical use of Flagellations_. The Abbé Dauteroche, one of the latest Travellers who have published an account of Russia, where he went to observe the transit of Venus, gives a somewhat accurate description of the baths and stoves we mention. The heat is commonly carried in them to so high a degree as the fiftieth of Reaumur’s scale (which answer to the 130th of Fahrenheit’s; the greatest summer heat in England seldom surpasses, or even reaches, 80) a suffocating steam is raised by throwing plenty of water upon stones kept constantly red hot; and, in order to carry the agitation of the blood still farther, flagellations are applied to: a bundle of birchen twigs, with the leaves on, which being dry are soon stripped off, is as constant a part of the bathing implements and furniture, as a handkerchief or a towel. All these different operations being fulfilled, the bathers, as is above said, rush out into the external air, sometimes ten, or even twenty degrees colder than it was in this Country in the year 1740, and roll themselves in the snow, or jump into water through holes made in the ice. These are certainly surprising instances of what the human body may be brought to bear; much more remarkable than those that have been before mentioned; and the boxes of Buckhorse, the Chinese bastinadoes, and the flagellations of the Italian and Spanish disciplinants, are nothing in comparison to it. But, for a farther account of the Russian stoves, and of the trial the Abbé Dauteroche had the curiosity to make of them, as well as of the unexpected and unwelcome entertainment he received, I must refer the Reader to the Work itself he has published. INDEX. _Abbots_, possess an unlimited power of imposing disciplines on their Monks, 135, 139. Trick played by a certain Abbot to his Monks, 143, & _seq._ Are not respected by their Monks in proportion to their great power over them, 154, & _seq._ An explanation of the common saying, _they wait for him as Monks do for their Abbot_, _ibid._ See _Priors_. _Abelard_, the great pains he takes for the instruction of Heloisa, 235, 236. His letters to her, quoted, 236, 243. _Adamites_, mentioned by St. Austin, what sect they were, 392. _Adams_ (Parson), proposed as a pattern of gallantry and proper behaviour, 294. Receives a lecture from a Lady, which he deserves, 405. _Adhelm_, an English Saint, the kind of mortification he recommends to young women, 246. _Adriasem_, alias Adriansen (Cornelius), what kind of penance he imposes upon his female penitents, 231. A farther account of him, 234. Is the inventor, or at least the promoter, of the _Cornelian_ discipline, 235.