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of human knowledge and of human enjoyment that re- 

 mains uncultivated within this miraculous enclofure*. 

 For my own part at leaft, I can think of none, that 

 is not attended to in one part of it or another. 



The remaining rooms of the firil ftory are partly ap- 

 propriated to works of art of all kinds, for example, 

 wax-figures, porcelain, cryftal and glafs wares, &c. or 

 made ufe of as billiard-rooms and apartments for 

 foreigners and travellers. But one muft have good 

 ■ftore of money for hiring the latter. A couple of 

 chambers ufually coft two new louis-d'ors per day, 

 and a fuite of rooms fifty louis-d'ors by the month, 

 Accordingly they are for the moll part taken only by 

 3'oung Englifhmcn or Hollanders, who travel but once 

 in their lives, and therefore are determined to travel, 

 in their opinion as they ought, in mine as they ought 

 not. People of this fort are the moft profitable cufto- 

 rners that frequent the Palais Royal, as they deny 

 themfelves nothing they have once a mind to, and 

 therefore throw away their money with both hands as 

 long as they find it convenient to ftay. The arrival of 

 engliih lords, and evex r y Englifhman that comes here is a 

 milord, makes them happy ; and. if the being incefTantly 

 called my lord can make a man happy, it muft be con- 

 felled that his happinefs here is complete ; though he 

 pays very dearly for it. 



The fecond ftory of the Palais Royal is inexpreffibly 

 inferior to the lower in point of- magnificence. It is 

 partly fired up for the reception of firangers, and 

 partly as lodgings for the cyprian corps, whofe lodging*- 

 ■■ e for the moft part uncleanly, and poorly 

 furniihed-j b)$ their vifiting-rooms are kept clean ar^d 



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