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&c. Under the long gallery dwell goldsmiths, payn- 

 ters, statuaries, and architects, who being the most 

 famous for their art in Christendom, have stipends 

 allowed them by the King. We went into that of 

 Monsieur Saracin, who was moulding for an image of a 

 Madona to be cast in gold, of a greate size, to be sent by 

 the Queene Regent to Lauretto, as an offering for the 

 birth of the Dauphine, now the young King of France. 

 I finish'd this day with a walke in the greate garden 

 of the Thuilleries, which is rarely contrived for privacy, 

 shade, or company, by groves, plantations of tall trees, 

 especially that in the middle, being of elmes, another 

 of mulberys. There is a labyrinth of cypresse, noble 

 hedges of pomegranates, fountaines, fishponds, and an 

 aviary. There is an artificial echo, redoubling the 

 words distinctly, and it is never without some faire 

 nymph singing to it. Standing at one of the focus's, 

 which is under a tree, or little cabinet of hedges, the 

 voice seems to descend from the clouds ; at another 

 as if it was under-ground. This being at the bottom 

 of the garden, we were let into another, which being 

 kept with all imaginable accuratenesse as to the orangery, 

 precious shrubes, and rare fruites, seem'd a paradise. I 

 From a tarrace in this place we saw so many coaches, 

 as one would hardly think could be maintained in the 



