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Returning through the rooms already passed through, 

 you enter the 



LIBRARY, 



seventy-five feet long, by twenty-five feet wide: the whole 

 is fitted up with mahogany, and the curtains of grey cloth 

 with draperies of crimson velvet, trimmed with gold fringe, 

 are tastefully supported by gilt Lions' heads. — Round the 

 room runs a Gallery of singular light construction, the 

 entrance to which is by a small stair-case contrived within 

 the wall ; the balustrade is of ornamented iron work — 

 the ceiling is most richly decorated, and from it hang three 

 splendid cut-glass chrystal lamps. There is a chimney 

 at each end of the room, over which are two glasses, and 

 upon each chimney-piece is a magnificent clock of Parisian 

 manufacture, and alabaster groupes and urns of most ela- 

 borate and beautiful workmanship. In this room are col- 

 lected above 20,000 volumes of printed books, constituting 

 one of the most magnificent libraries in Europe, and col- 

 lected principally by the late Marquess of Buckingham. 



A small stair-case of oak, concealed within the wall, 

 leads down into a small vaulted Hail, fitted up with painted 

 glass, the walls of which are hung with armour: three 

 figures stand on the pavement, one dressed in a complete 

 and valuable suit of Norman-chain armour, the other in a 

 suit of armour worn by a Bill man in Queen Elizabeth's 

 reign, and the third in the splendid and. costly arms and 

 costume of a Persian, warrior. — Amongst the arms are 

 some that belonged to Tippoo Saib. 



