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exquifite, elegant, inviting, and captivating, than all 

 the others which I have mentioned only by their mofl 

 prominent features. I do but endeavour to give a fort 

 of footing to your imagination : and, if you ever hap- 

 pen to come hither, you will fee that I have not pre- 

 vioufly painted to your mental eye thefe objects in too 

 ihining colours, or borrowed from the regions of fancy 

 the hints I give you of the nature, diverfity, and ar- 

 rangements of the whole. 



The fhorter crofs-wing contains, in no lefs a variety, 

 cofFee-houfes, fhops of reftaurateurs, bookfellers, paflry- 

 cooks, dealers in cloaths and frippery, and others, ter- 

 minating at the extremities of the two long fide-wings, 

 through a fecond magnificent veftibule, at the pillars 

 whereof are feen fruit and flower women, dog- fellers, 

 and pamphlet- fellers, errand-boys and valets de place, 

 in motley groups. 



The fecond long wing comprifes every thing that 

 has raifed your attention in the firft, and fiill fome 

 new objects more. You find here, for example, arches 

 full of mafterly drawings and paintings, glafs-fhops, 

 cutlers, buckle -fellers, cake -fhops, glovers, fadlers, 

 mafons, feal -cutters, miniature-painters, lottery-offices, 

 and bankers' fhops, in the mofl mifcellar.eous fuccef- 

 lion : and all this muft neceflarily be here to make 

 good what I have fo often repeated to you, that no 

 fenfe, no want, no whim, need depart ungratified from 

 hence. 



You recollect from my former letter, that the fourth 

 wing on the new plan is not yet finifhed, and that, in 

 the mean time, a wooden gallery is erected, where fix 

 rows of doric columns are foon to raife their lofty 



capitals, 



