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a spacious dining-room, where only the murmur 

 and break of the sea can be heard even in a 

 storm ; it looks out upon the garden, and the 

 gestatio running round the garden. The 

 gestatio is bordered round with box, and, where 

 that is decayed, with rosemary ; for the box, 

 wherever sheltered by the buildings, grows 

 plentifully, but where it lies open and exposed 

 to the weather and spray from the sea, though 

 at some distance from this latter, it quite 

 withers up. Next the gestatio, and running 

 along inside it, is a shady vine-plantation, the 

 path of which is so soft and easy to the tread 

 that you may walk barefoot upon it. The garden 

 is chiefly planted with fig and mulberry trees, to 

 which this soil is as favorable as it is averse 

 from all others. Here is a dining-room, which, 

 though it stands away from the sea, enjoys the 

 garden view, which is just as pleasant ; two 

 apartments run around the back part of it, the 

 windows of which look out upon the entrance 

 of the villa, and into a fine kitchen-garden. 

 From here extends an enclosed portico, which, 

 from its great length, you might take for a 

 public one. It has a range of windows on either 

 side, but more on the side facing the sea, and 

 fewer on the garden side, and these single win- 

 dows alternate with the opposite rows. In 

 calm, clear weather these are all thrown open ; 



