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The colony of Moravian Brothers at present numbersabout 400; of these, 70 or 80 are the " unmarried brothers,"and they live altogether in one large house at the upper end ofthe town, in " Louisen Strasse ;" while the " unmarried sisters,"who are about 120 in number, occupy an equally large build-ing in " Engersen Strasse:" there are, moreover, 100 " niar-ried brothers and sisters," the remainder being widows andwidowers. The sisters all wear a peculiar white head-dress—something like a school-boy's calico night-cap—with the ex-ception that it is tied under the chin with ribbons of differentcolours, according to the social condition of the individuals;the young, unmarried girls, fastening their cap with redstrings, the more elderly with pink, the wives with blue, andthe widows with white.

The houses in which the unmarried sisters and brotherslive have long whitewashed corridors, that reminded us for-cibly of those at the convent at Nonnenwerth, though theywere not cloistered as at the latter place. The dormitories arelarge, college-like sleeping-rooms, and the chapel is as bareand unornamented as a Quakers' meeting-house. There is akind of small, rüde bazaar, on the ground-floor at the sisters'house, ,for the sale of fancy articles, such as envelope-boxes,porte-monnaies, and Berlin-wool work; and we were shownover the establishment by a sister, the sternness of whosemanners contrasted forcibly with the gentleness and grace ofthose of the sister at Nonnenwerth.

At the unmarried brothers' house the sight was almostsimilar, with the exception that here were shoemakers' roomsand tailors' rooms, and one into which we were ushered in theevening was the smoking-room, where we found some dozen ofthe " German Quakers" enveloped in a dense fog of tobaccofumes.

The prince's palace at Neuwied, it may be added, con-