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ing-room ; and beyond that a second of smaller size, which has 

 one window to the rising and another to the setting sun; this 

 has likewise a prospect of the sea, out, being at a greater dis- 

 tance, is less incommoded by it. The angle which the projection 

 of the hall forms with this drawing-room, retains and increases 

 the warmth of the sun ; and hither my family retreat in winter 

 to perform their exercises : it is sheltered from all winds except 

 those which are generally attended with clouds, so that nothing 

 can render this place useless, but what, at the same time, destroys 

 the fair weather. 



" Contiguous to this is a room forming the segment of a cir- 

 cle, the windows of which are so placed as to receive the sun the 

 whole day; in the walls are contrived a sort of cases, which 

 contain a collection of those authors whose works can never be 

 read too often. Thence you pass into a bedchamber through a 

 passage which, being boarded and suspended, as it were, over a 

 stove which runs underneath, tempers the heat which it receives 

 and conveys to all parts of this room. The remainder of this 

 side of the house is appropriated to the use of my slaves and 

 freedmen ; but most of the apartments are neat enough to receive 

 any of my friends. 



" In the opposite wing is a room ornamented in very elegant 

 taste : next to which lies another room, which, though large for a 

 parlor, makes but a moderate dining-room ; it is exceedingly well 

 warmed and enlightened, not only by the direct rays of the sun, 

 but by their reflection from the sea. Beyond is a bedchamber, 

 together with its anteroom, the height of which renders it cool 

 in summer; as its being sheltered on all sides from the winds 

 makes it warm in winter. To this apartment another of the same 

 sort is joined by one common wall. Thence you enter into the 

 grand and spacious cooling-room belonging to the bath, from the 

 opposite walls of which two round basins projegt, sufficiently 

 large to swim in. Contiguous to this is the perfuming-room, then 

 the sweating-room, and next to that the furnace which conveys 

 the heat to the baths ; adjoining, are two other little bathing- 

 rooms, fitted up in an elegant rather than costly manner ; annexed 

 to this is a warm bath of extraordinary workmanship, wherein 

 one may swim and have a prospect, at the same time, of the sea. 



" Not far hence stands the tennis court, which lies open to 

 the warmth of the afternoon sun. Thence you ascend a sort of 

 turret, containing two entire apartments below ; and there are 

 the same number above, besides a dining-room which commands 

 a very extensive prospect of the sea, together with the beautiful 

 villas that stand interspersed upon the coast. At the other end 

 is a second turret, in which is a room that receives the rising 

 and the setting sun. Behind this is a large repository, near to 



