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paces long, set in order and ranges, making a canopy 

 all the way by their intermixing branches for more 

 than 200 of my single paces, and which being full of 

 fruite and blossoms was a most delicious sight. In the 

 middle of this garden was a cupola made of wyre, 

 supported by slender pillars of brick, so closely cover'd 

 with ivy, both without and within, that nothing was 

 to be perceived but greene ; 'twixt the arches there 

 dangled festoones of the same. Here is likewise a 

 most inextricable labyrinth. 



In the evening we saw the garden of Count Giusti's 

 villa (at Verona), where are walkes cut out of the 

 maine rock, from whence we had the pleasant prospect 

 of Mantua and Parma, though at greate distance. At 

 the entrance of this garden growes the goodliest cypresse 

 I fancy in Europ, cut in pyramid ; 'tis a prodigious tree 

 both for breadth and height, entirely cover'd and thick 

 to the base. 



Aug. 1649. Returning to Paris we went to see 

 the President Maison's Palace, built castle-wise of 

 a milk-white fine freestone ; the house not vast, but 

 well contriv'd,especialy thestaire-caseand the ornaments 



