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other spacious, noble, and princely furnish'd roomes, 

 which looke towards the gardens, and which are 

 nothing inferior to the rest. 



The Court below is formed into a square by a 

 corridor, having over the chiefe entrance a stately 

 cupola, covered with stone ; the rest is cloister'd and 

 arch'd on pillasters of rustiq worke. The tarrace 

 ascending before the front, paved with white & black 

 marble, is balustred with white marble, exquisitely 

 polish'd. 



Onely the Hall below is low, and the stayrecase 

 somewhat of an heavy designe, but the faciata towards 

 the parterre, which is also arched & vaulted with 

 stone, is of admirable beauty, and full of sculpture. 



The Gardens are neere an English mile in com- 

 passe, enclos'd with a stately wall, and in a good ayre. 

 The parterre is indeed of box, but so rarely design' d 

 and accurately kept cut, that the embroidery makes a 

 wonderful effect to the lodgings which front it. 'Tis 

 divided into 4 squares, & as many circular knots, 

 having in the center a noble basin of marble neere 

 30 feet in diameter (as I remember), in which a triton 

 of brasse holds a dolphin that casts a girandola of 

 water neere 30 foote high, playing perpetualy, the 

 water being convey'd from Arceuil by an aqueduct of 



