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were Grotefque Paintings, of Birds, Bealls, 

 Maflcs, Feftoons and the like : Soon afterwards, 

 with fome difficulty, and by creeping up a ve- 

 ry narrow Hole of loofe Earth, we got into 

 an upper Apartment of another Houfe : The 

 Floor was of Stucco, and the Earth and Rub- 

 bilh was cleared away from under a great part 

 of it : we ventured upon it, and found a Room 

 lined and adorned in a manner I have defcribed 

 the laft, only it was rather richer ; the Ceiling 

 is painted juft in the fame manner and in the 

 fame Colours, and with the fame Ground of 

 deep red as the fides. This Room may have 

 been about ten or eleven foot high ; but the 

 danger of our fituation, would not permit us 

 to do other wife, than get out of it as foon as 

 we could. 



7. " Shortly afterwards, we were carried, ra- 

 ther afcending as we went, into what feems to 

 ' have been a principal Room in fome great 



• Houfe; at the end of it, which is to be feen, 

 ' there are three large Buffets in the Wall, all 



• three moft admirably painted, partly in Gro- 

 ' tefque, and partly in Perfpedive, reprefenting 

 ^ Temples, Houfes, Gardens, and the like, exe- 

 ' cuted with the greateft freedom, judgment, and 

 ^ variety, and very much enlivened with the 

 ' higheft and moft airy Ornaments ; as is the 



• whole of the Room as far as can be feen, not 



H 4^ " except- 



