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ancient statues and inscriptions, both of marble and 

 brasse ; the length, 300 paces, divides the garden into 

 higher and lower ground, having a very noble foun- 

 taine. There is the portrait of an hart, taken in the 

 forest by Lewis XII. which has 24 antlers on its head. 

 In the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour we saw many 

 sepulchres of the Earls of Blois. 



Sunday, being May day, we walked up into the 

 Pall Mall, very long and so nobly shaded with tall 

 trees (being in the midst of a great woode), that, 

 unless that of Tours, I had not seene a statelier. 



The Gardens (at Cardinal Richelieu's Palace) 

 without are very large, and the parterres of excellent 

 imbrodry, set with many statues of brasse and marble ; 

 the groves, meadows, and walkes are a real paradise. 



This Palace of Negros (Palazzo Negrone, at Genoa) 

 is richly furnish'd with the rarest pictures ; on the terrace, 

 or hilly garden, there is a grove of stately trees amongst 

 which are sheepe, shepherds, and wild beasts, cut very 

 artificially in a grey stone ; fountaines, rocks, and fish- 

 ponds : casting your eyes one way, you would imagine 



