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but by their reflection from the sea. Beyond 

 this is a bedroom -with an ante-room, the height 

 of which renders it cool in summer, its thick 

 walls warm in winter, for it is sheltered, every 

 way, from the winds. To this apartment an- 

 other ante-room is joined by one common wall. 

 From thence you enter into the wide and 

 spacious cooling-room belonging to the bath, 

 from the opposite walls of which two curved 

 basins are thrown out, so to speak ; which are 

 more than large enough if you consider that 

 the sea is close at hand. Adjacent to this is 

 the anointing-room, then the sweating-room, 

 and beyond that the bath-heating room ; adjoin- 

 ing are two other little bath-rooms, elegantly 

 rather than sumptuously fitted up ; annexed to 

 them is a warm bath of wonderful construc- 

 tion, in which one can swim and take a view 

 of the sea at the same time. Not far from this 

 stands the tennis-court, which lies open to the 

 warmth of the afternoon sun. From thence you 

 go up a sort of turret which has two rooms below, 

 with the same number above, besides a dining- 

 room commanding a very extensive lookout on 

 to the sea, the coast, and the beautiful villas 

 scattered along the shore line. At the other 

 end is a second turret, containing a room that 

 gets the rising and setting sun. Behind this is 

 a large store-room and granary, and underneath, 



