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5. Mat's Arcade is fifty yards long, thirty 

 feet wide, and sixty in height. 



Between the floor and ceiUng 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 ceiling 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 oldea 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 fiow'ry stream. 

 Imagine, where, in ' frenzy fine,' 



He had his wanton ' Dream.' 

 Titania here might move along, 



And Puck his frolics play, 

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