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sentation of sleep, without any appearance of death. 

 This gallery itself is very fine, having two rows of 

 pillars, between which are statues of the Muses. The 

 Fawn is the only one that fronts in the area. An 

 inscription bears that the building was finished in 

 1796 by the regent. 



The library is a spacious room, lined altogether 

 with white wood. It is, however, a contemptible 

 collection, only 35,000 volumes, which were a present 

 from the king, though, from the privacy of the estab- 

 lishment, it appears that he gave very little away in 

 making the gift. In a separate gallery on one side is 

 a collection of manuscripts, and another of classics. 

 Here, too, are the only remarkable books in the whole 

 viz., the Great Bible, called The Devil's, from a 

 book on magic being affixed to it; the exercises of 

 the late king when a boy one of these is a little 

 singular, being an ode of Kousseau's violently in 

 praise of freedom, and abusing tyrants in a very 

 pointed way ; and lastly, a beautiful manuscript copy 

 of the evangelists. The rooms of the palace are large 

 and elegantly furnished, containing a variety of superb 

 mirrors, the floors of wood curiously inlaid, the pre- 

 vailing furniture blue velvet and satin with gold, and 

 above all, many fine pictures, chiefly Flemish, though 

 there is a vast crowd of inferior ones. We remarked 

 particularly Venus and Adonis by Vandyke, Mercy 

 by Rubens, and the Judgment by ditto, an old 

 Hermit by Rembrandt, also his mother. 



In the king's sitting-room there are two statues 



