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is regularly kept, wherein are entered the name of the 

 fell'er, and the price of the goods depolited, for which 

 he at the fame time takes a receipt. For the corn- 

 million he pays fo much per cent, in (rated proportions 

 adjufted to the price of the articles, whether high or 

 low. If, for example, it is fold at 100 to 300 livres, 

 then he pays 4; at 400 to 600 livres, lie pays 2 ; from 

 600 to 1200 livres, 1 ; from 1200 upwards, only 

 one half per cent. Out of thefe premiums the un- 

 dertaker provides the room and all other neceffaries. 

 This plan is found to be very convenient for artifrs of 

 all forts, and by no means burdenfome : for many 

 grand productions of induftry and ingenuity would 

 otherwife lie in garrets, where it would require great 

 pains to find them out ; whereas now they are brought 

 and placed amongfr, others of the fame clafs^ and fet 

 off to the beft advantage. 



The light of this extraordinary magazine is one of 

 the molt fhowy that can be imagined ; and the furvey 

 of the various performances of every kind affords no 

 fmall entertainment to the man of tafte. 



There are frill two or three other magazines of the 

 fame nature in the Palais Royal ; but neither of them 

 is upon fo extenlive a fc ale, and they are maintained 

 at the proper charges of the proprietors. 



At fome diftance farther is a warehoufe of another 

 kind, no lefs remarkable : a warehoufe of liqueurs. 

 All the forts of liqueurs that can be diflilled from any 

 thing in nature, all that can be impregnated and co- 

 loured by any means, are here to be had in bottles of 

 -any iize ; and the whole is difpofed and difplayed in 

 fo much order and tafte, as cannot fail to keep one in 



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