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excepting the Roof which feems to have been 

 a Hoping one ; and all the Lines of the Com- 

 partments of the Painting of it, feem to tend 

 ** to fome Ornaments, that mufl have been in the 

 " middle, or Centre of the top: What the heigth 

 of this Room may have been, is hard to fay, 

 for by the Buffets it appears, that there is a good 

 depth to be dug out to get on the Floor. I 

 muft not omit, that betv^een the painted Com- 

 partments of this Room, there is continually 



*' a Palm-tree in fo very pifturefque a manner, 

 that I think it one of the moft pleafing Orna- 

 ments I ever fav7 : What may be the length 

 and breadth of this Room is not to be gueffed 

 at, for they have not cleared av^ay above, I 

 think, five foot of the end of it, that I have 

 given an account of. We afterwards paffed 

 thorough ordinary Rooms of the fame Houfe, 

 and through the Infide of fome other Houfes, 

 feemingly of lefs note, of thefe Infides in gene- 

 ral, I {hall only fay, that they are almoft al- 

 ways painted of a deep Red, fometimes plain, 

 and fometimes adorned with Figures, and it 

 feemed to me, twice or thrice as wc paffed 



*^ along, that we turned the Corners of Streets ; 



■** twice I thought we paffed the Fronts of Houfes, 

 and once particularly we paffed by the Frqnt as 

 it feemed of fome publick Edifice, very large, 

 with very broad fluted Pilafters of Stucco, 



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