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succession of large lofty rooms, richly 
ornamented. The gallery (esteemed 
the finest in Europe,) is seventy-two 
yards long, and fourteen broad, having 
seventeen windows towards the gar- 
dens; from which there is a most 
delightfal prospect. On the ceilings 
are painted the battles of the reign of 
Louis XIV. which are very bighly 
finished. The finest front is next the 
gardens, on which side there is a fine 
portico, supported by marble pillars, 
and floored with the same, an hundred 
yards in length; and the gardens are 
not to be paralleled,—as all the beau- 
tiful models that Italy or the world 
could produce were consulted, to make 
them complete. The water-works, 
especially, are inimitable; here marble 
and copper statues spout up water 
in different forms, which falls into 
marble basons of exquisite workmen- 
ship. It being the féte of St. Louis, 
the grand water-works played: the 
dragon or serpent has ninety jets, 
and costs 4000 francs every time it 
plays. The water is conveyed to this 
place from Marly. There were about 
10,000 persous present, surrounding 
the great canal, which is 1600 yards 
long, and 64 broad. The gallery is 
entirely composed of marble, pictures, 
glass, and gildings. Several pictures 
and ceilings are by Paul Veronese, 
and the pictures in the gallery by 
Le Brun. The great marble staircase 
surpasses any thing of the kind that 
antiquity can boast of: the fresco 
paintings are by Je Brun. First 
you enter the Hail of Plenty, painted 
by Houasse; thence to the Cabinet of 
Antiquitiés, painted by the same. The 
Hall of Venus has some beautiful 
paintings, and an ancient statue of 
Cincinnatus. The Hall of the Billiard 
Table is likewise adorned with exqui- 
site paintings. The Hallof Mars: the 
family of Darius at Alexander’s feet, is 
one of Le Brun’s best pieces. The 
Hall of Mereury is painted by Cham- 
pagne ; and some pictures by Raphael, 
Titian, and others. The Hall of 
Apollo: «he Four Seasons by La 
Fosse, and several by Guido. The 
Halls of War and Peace are at both 
ends of the gallery: the former has 
some fine paintings by Le Brun, repre- 
senting the actions of Louis XIV. 
The queen’s apartment is adorned 
with pictures of great value, chiefly 
by Coypeland Vignon. Saw the little 
door through which she escaped at 
the time of the Revolution, The king’s 
A Lady's Journal of a recent Trip to France. 
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bed-chamber is ornamented with a 
great deal of magnificence and good 
order. The chapel belonging to the 
palace is an exceedingly tine piece of 
architecture, built of free-stone, in the 
Corinthian order. Nothing can be 
more beautiful or richer than the in- 
ward embellishments of this chapel. 
The great altar is of the finest marble ; 
and the roof is elegantly painted. The 
theatre is one of the most magnificent 
in Europe: when it was lighted with 
wax, the glass, the lustres, the fine 
paintings, and the gilding, (of which 
there was a profusion,) produced a 
marvellous effect. At extraordinary 
fétes, the theatre was changed into a 
ball-room.— From one of the jet d’eaux 
the water rises seventy-eight feet.— 
Great Trianon is situated at the extre- 
mity of an arm of the canal. This 
oriental building is as respectable as 
magnificent : it is composed of only one 
ground-floor, (Rez de Chaussée,) di- 
vided into two pavilions, re-united by 
a peristyle, supported by twenty-two 
columns of the Ionic order; eight of 
these columns’ are green marble of 
Campon, and the fourteen others of the 
red marble of Languedoc, It is now 
unfurnished ; as is also the Palace of 
Versailles.—Little Trianon consists of 
a pavilion on the ground-floor, and 
two stories: it was the favourite resi- 
dence of Marie-Antoinette, whose 
bed-room furniture stil] remains, which 
is very elegant, consisting of white 
sik trimmed with silver; the eciling 
is covered with silvered while satin 
drapery, and the curtains are embroi- 
dered with silver. The gardens are 
distinguished as the French and 
English garden; they contain a little 
mill, a. farm, temple d’amour, salle des 
coursiers: the queen’s boudoir was in 
appearance a little farm-house.—In 
the town of Versailles you breathe a 
light and pure air; but there is no 
water. They are obliged to bring 
water from the Seine, by means of the 
celebrated machine at Marly.—M. H. 
went up from Tivoli Gardens by a bal- 
loon in the evening. It was a grand 
night. 
(To be concluded in our next. } 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of a recent ERUPTION of a 
VOLCANO im ICELAND. 
Treikewig, Iceland; July 16, 1823. 
I, had extremely mild weather 
through the whole winter, which 
was followed by a rather cold and dry. 
spring; 
