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5. Mar’s Arcabz is fifty yards long, thirty 
feet wide, and sixty in height. 
Between the floor and ceiling there are four 
beautiful terraces, which extend the full length 
of the Arcade. ; 
There is a collection of beautiful stalactites, 
called the Pine-Apple Bush, in Mat’s Arcade. 
6. ANGELICO Grotto, the celiing and walls of 
which are incrusted with crystals of carbonate 
of lime, is a beautiful apartment. ‘The artists 
have succeeded in obtaining a very handsome 
photograph of this grotto, in the couch of which 
a young girl was reclining at the time of its ex- 
ecution. We find the following lines in the 
Rev. Horace Martin’s book, addressed to this 
fairy grotto: 
‘Some Fairy of the olden time 
Her dwelling sure had here, 
And here she rested, with no grief 
To shade her spirits clear. 
How fit the place for one like her— 
So fanciful and light— 
A creature jocund as the dawn, 
And as the morning bright. 
A spot like this, did he, the Bard 
Of Avon's flow’ry stream, 
Imagine, where, in ‘ frenzy fine,’ 
He had his wanton ‘ Dream.’ 
Titania here might move along, 
And Puck his frolies play, 
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