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felf immortal by it alone, if not another fpecimen were 

 to be feen of his genius. 



At the extremity of a wing the king has his ftudy, 

 and adjoining to it a very fmall cabinet, into which no 

 perfon is admitted ; through its glafs-door, however, 

 one can difcern a chair, on which the portraits of the 

 prefent emperor, and the deceafed elect refs of Saxony, 

 mother to the reigning elector, are Handing befide one 

 another. This chair has ftood juft where it does for a 

 great number of years, and nobody dares even to brufh 

 it. Into the library, which is not very fpacious, as 

 containing no books merely for fhew, but only for ufe, 

 no ftranger is permitted to enter, and is indulged with 

 a fight of it no otherwife than through the door. In 

 the recefTes of the windows tables are introduced, upon 

 which the king had laid his papers and plans. 



In front of the new palace, in the garden, ftands 

 the temple of antiquities, lhaded by a thick grove of 

 trees, It is of a circular form, finifhed within entirely 

 of grey Silefian marble, and receives its light fokly 

 through the lantern at the top of the cupola. Its archi- 

 tecture is in the correctefl: tafte. Here ftand in a circle 

 round it, the excellent itatues brought from the collec- 

 tion of the cardinal Polignac. They reprefent that part 

 of the Hory of UlyfTes, when he discovered Achilles 

 among the women. UlyfTes is feen under the guife of 

 a pedlar ; but has at the fame time the fcrutinizing 

 mien of a man that wants to make a difcovery of fome 

 important matter. Achilles ftands facing him, in an 

 actual extafy at the beauty of the weapons. All the 

 other Itatues reprefent ladies : they are diverfly occupied 

 in examining the wares that UlyfTes has brought ; and 



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