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three hundred figures, designed and executed by Signor 

 Valdre. They are disposed so as to fill the whole circle, 

 and compose a triumph and a sacrifice : many of them are 

 collected from the pillars of Trajan, and of Antonine, from 

 the arches of Severus, Titus, and Constantine, and from 

 others of the noblest monuments of the Roman grandeur; 

 they are in general near four feet high, and are blended with 

 various trophies, spoils and animals ; over the Loggia door 

 is the Temple to which the procession leads ; over the Hall 

 door is the triumphal arch from which it proceeds. The 

 cornice is supported by sixteen columns executed in Scaiola, 

 representing Sicilian jasper, by Signor Dominico Bartoli, and 

 finished with a lustre superior to the finest marbles: the 

 bases and capitals of them are white. 



In the walls are sixteen compartments or pannels, filled 

 up with trophies in the richest and boldest relievo; and 

 below them are the four doors, and twelve niches : in eight 

 of them are white marble antique figures, some of them of 

 the finest Greek or Roman sculpture, viz. Meleager, (very 

 fine;) Augustus, (very fine;) a Muse, (very fine ;) Agrippina; 

 Diana ; Venus ; Antinous, (very fine ;) and Hygeia : in the 

 others are Candelabra, six feet high, executed with the 

 utmost taste, and richly bronzed and gilt. 



From the soffite hang, by chains of gilt bronze, sixteen 

 glass lights, decorated with festoons of cut chrystal, and 

 containing lamps. 



The pavement is of the finest marble from Massa Carrara, 

 in squares of four feet : scarlet draperies hang over the 

 doors. 



