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Monaco, Genoa, &c. ?
pear much longer than it is, to thole that
sail by it. The City it self makes the noblest
Show of any in the World.The Houscs are
most of them painted ontheOutsidej so
that they look extreamly gay and lively,
besides that they are esteemed the highest
in Europe, and Hand very thick together.
The New-Street is a double Range
of Palaces from one end to the other,
built with an excellent Fancy, and sit
for the greatest Princes to inhabit. . I
cannot however be reconciled to their
manner of Painting several of the Genoefe
Houses. Figures, Perspedives, or Pieces
of History are certainly very ornamental,
as they are drawn on many of the Walls,
that would otherwise look too naked and
uniform without them ; But instead of
these, one often sees the Front of a Pa-
lace covered with painted Pillars of disfe-
rent Orders. If these were so many true
Columns of Marble, set in their proper
Architefture, they would certainly very
much adorn the Places where they stand,
but as they are now, they only shew us
that there issomething wanting, and that
the Palace, which without these Coun-
terfeit Pillars would be beautiful in its
kind, might have been more perfed by
the Addition of such as are real. The
Front of the Villa Imperials, at a Mile
B y distance
pear much longer than it is, to thole that
sail by it. The City it self makes the noblest
Show of any in the World.The Houscs are
most of them painted ontheOutsidej so
that they look extreamly gay and lively,
besides that they are esteemed the highest
in Europe, and Hand very thick together.
The New-Street is a double Range
of Palaces from one end to the other,
built with an excellent Fancy, and sit
for the greatest Princes to inhabit. . I
cannot however be reconciled to their
manner of Painting several of the Genoefe
Houses. Figures, Perspedives, or Pieces
of History are certainly very ornamental,
as they are drawn on many of the Walls,
that would otherwise look too naked and
uniform without them ; But instead of
these, one often sees the Front of a Pa-
lace covered with painted Pillars of disfe-
rent Orders. If these were so many true
Columns of Marble, set in their proper
Architefture, they would certainly very
much adorn the Places where they stand,
but as they are now, they only shew us
that there issomething wanting, and that
the Palace, which without these Coun-
terfeit Pillars would be beautiful in its
kind, might have been more perfed by
the Addition of such as are real. The
Front of the Villa Imperials, at a Mile
B y distance