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A 
Defcription of His Majesty’s Palace and 
Gardens at LOO. 
Together, wich 
Some Account of the People and Country. - 
The- INTRODUCTION. 
O T H I N G docs give Pofterlty fb Noble an Idea of former 
Times, as the Mngrnficctice of their Buildings. The Remains 
we ftill have of the Bpman Greatnefs ia their Publick Stru- 
dlures are enough to merit? our higheft admiration. The 
Ruins filin' Amphitheatres as they are now to be feen, 
their immenfe Oheliskj] their prodigious Aqu.eduHs^ their iplendid Pa- 
laces and Temples^ their fiibterranean Catacombs., and even their Via Appia., 
and Fiaminea^ or their Caufewa'p that were made near Two thouland 
Years ago, when I^mewds a Bepublick.^ with a Stone fb hard, and fb 
Hrmly laid, as ftillto remain entire a good way in many Places, are 
all Objecis (b confpicuous, and fb durable in their kinds, that fome of 
them are like to continue to the end of the World everlafling Monu- 
ments of the juil Veneration due to Ancient Times, of their admirable 
Skill, if not rerfedlion mArchitcBure'^ and in a word, as undoubted 
Teftimonies ot the Splendour and Magnificence of the Grcatelt People that 
everwere recorded in _ 
What can .give us fuch a reprefentation of the Pomp and Grandeur of 
the Kjngs of .tSnpr, as the Wonderful Pyramids there to be fecn, and the 
illuftrious Ruins or Gr.'ind Cairo and Alexandria ! 
Qdx Englifh Indeed have bellowed dicir Munificence chiefly in lafting 
Monuments of their Piety, in evecling abundance of the Noble}]- C.-ithe- 
deals th.A Can anywhere be fccn. And En^^lnnd may defervcdly glory 
nor only in the {lately CLzhed'-als (he has built at home, as well as in her 
• ^ Palaces, 
