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and of every denomination, be his deflres as capricious 

 and extravagant as they may. Tables, chairs, writing- 

 defks, boxes of all lizes and forts, looking-glaffes, 

 and all other articles of furniture, which, for the 

 fupply of convenience or luxury, can be made out of 

 all the woods of Europe, Alia, Africa, and America ; 

 to which the moft lavifh prodigality, with the affift- 

 ance of all the productions of nature ; to which art, 

 with its polifhing tools, varnifhes, lackers, and colours ; 

 to which fafhion, in its moft wanton moods, has ever 

 given birth, elegance, currency, and vogue : all this 

 you find clifplayed within this fliop, and about its 

 front, in fuch variety and abundance, that the ufes 

 of numbers of the articles are often as much unknown 

 to you as their names. 



Clofe by this vault is the entrance to a playhoufe, 

 which runs along between the ftately columns of a 

 majeftic veilibule. 



I have now gone with you along one entire wing 

 of the palace ; but you are not to imagine that I 

 have fhewn you all. Before the fmaller arches, in 

 which are expofed to fale books, laces, and mull hi, 

 pies, and all kinds of paltry, children's toys, hats, 

 feathers, candies and fweatmeats, watches, canes, ma- 

 thematical and optical inftxuments, ready-made deaths 

 for women sirid children, fruits, faufages, liqueurs, 

 works in wood and bone, flowers, ruffles, falfe -tails, 

 and wooden fhoes, pincufhions, and a thoufand other 

 things of a thoufand other kinds : all thefe I lead you 

 by, that I may not repeat myfelf and weary you. How- 

 ever, I rnuft needs fay, that all we meet with here, 

 though I omit to fpecify it by name, is not lefs nice, 



exquiflte, 



