Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . rd is pouring water. On the front of the arfenal is St. Michael and the Devil, incopper. The Hotel de Ville is a rich ftrufture, adorned with paint-ings of the feveral forms of government, and other are marble pillars, with the capitals and bafes of brafs,of the Corinthian order. The ftoves in the feveral apartmentsare finely adorned with pillars, bas-reliefs, &c. The Secret, or Private Gate, is a curiofity they fhew to Gran-gers, and boaft much of. To come to it from witho
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . rd is pouring water. On the front of the arfenal is St. Michael and the Devil, incopper. The Hotel de Ville is a rich ftrufture, adorned with paint-ings of the feveral forms of government, and other are marble pillars, with the capitals and bafes of brafs,of the Corinthian order. The ftoves in the feveral apartmentsare finely adorned with pillars, bas-reliefs, &c. The Secret, or Private Gate, is a curiofity they fhew to Gran-gers, and boaft much of. To come to it from without, youpafs through two doors, by the fentinels box : then you cometo the fir ft gate that opens by the machinery; then you go overa bridge of forty-three paces : eleven paces further, there is alittle iron gate; then immediately is a draw-bridge; whenthe draw-bridge is let down, the iron gate opens, without anybody near it, and that (huts as the bridge is drawn up again :then the firft great gate opens; after that, two more, at a fewpaces diftance from each other. As foon as the fecond opens, the.
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