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of clock-work of great value, being fome of them very- 

 large, compofed of many ingenious movements, and en- 

 riched with ornaments of gold, intermixed with pearls, 

 diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and other gems. 



Befides the different ftruclures already mentioned, 

 they have fome made in the form of Perflan tents ; 

 others built of roots and pollards, put together with 

 great tafte; and others, called Miau Ting, or Halls of 

 the Moon, of a prodigious fize; compofed each of one 

 fingle vaulted room, made in the fhape of a hemifphere ; 

 the concave of which is artfully painted, in imitation of 

 a nocturnal fky, and pierced with an infinite number of 

 little windows, made to reprefent the moon and ftars, 

 being filled with tinged glafs, that admits the light in the 

 quantities necefTary to fpread over the whole interior 

 fabric the pleafing gloom of a fine fummer's night. 



The pavements of thefe rooms are fometimes laid out 

 in parterres of flowers ; amongft which are placed many 

 rural feats, made of fine formed branches, varnifhed red 



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