LETTRE
V.
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« were Grotesque Paintings, of Birds, Beasts, « Masks, Festoons and the like : Soon afterwards. « with some difficulty, and by qreeping up a ve« ry narrow Hole of loose Earth, we got into « an upper Apartment of another House : The « Floor was of Stucco, and the Earth and Rub« bish was cleared away from under a great part « of it : we ventured upon it, and found a Room « lined and adorned in a manner I have described « the last, only it was rather richer ; the Ceiling « is painted just in the same manner and in the « same Colours, and with the same Ground of « deep red as the sides. This Room may have « been about ten or eleven foot high ; but the « danger of our situation, would not permit us « to do otherwise, than get out of it as soon as « we could. 7. « Shortly afterwards, we were carried, ra« ther ascending as we went, into what seems to « have been a principal Room in some great « Houfe ; at the end of it, which is to be seen, « there are three large Buffets in the Wall, all « three most admirably painted, partly in Gro« tesque, and partly in Perspective, representing « Temples, Houses, Gardens, and the like, exe« cuted with the greatest freedom, judgment, and « variety, and very much enlivened with the « highest and most airy Ornaments ; as is the « whole of the Room as far as can be seen, not « exceptH 4