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the Bishop of Puebla, are the only works 

 worth mentioning connected with the old 

 masters, that came under my inspection. 



In the many rambles I made through the 

 city, I often examined the brokers' and fur- 

 niture shops ; as, amongst the countless 

 number of statues and pictures of saints and 

 martyrs, I expected to have found something 

 worth bringing home : but all my researches 

 in this way only produced me two small pic- 

 tures ; one on copper, (the Adoration of the 

 Shepherds), an early picture, or a copy of 

 Correggio ; the other a Holy Family, some- 

 what in the style of Carlo Maratti. 



I had imagined that the amazing and 

 rapid accumulation of wealth which had ac- 

 crued to several individuals from the working 

 of the silver mines would have caused some of 

 the productions of European art, either 

 through devotion or taste, to have made a 

 voyage across the Atlantic ; but this does not 



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