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94 A TOUR THROUGH
in other countries, so I mall only speak of
one, which, sor its Angularity, certainly
is not to be paralleled on the face of the
earth ; it belongs to the prince of P-,
a man of immense fortune, who has de-
voted his whole life to the study of mon-
gers and chimeras, greater and more ridi-
culous than ever entered into the imagi-
nation of the wildest writers of romance
or knight-errantry.
The amazing crowd of statues that Air-
xound his house, appear at a distance like
a little army drawn up for its defence;
but when you get amongst them, and every
one a ssumes his true likeness, you imagine
you have got into the regions of delusion
and enchantment; for of all that immense
group, there is not one made to represent
any object in nature ; nor is the absur-
dity of the wretched imagination that cre-
ated them less astonishing than its wonder-
ful fertility. It would require a volume
to
in other countries, so I mall only speak of
one, which, sor its Angularity, certainly
is not to be paralleled on the face of the
earth ; it belongs to the prince of P-,
a man of immense fortune, who has de-
voted his whole life to the study of mon-
gers and chimeras, greater and more ridi-
culous than ever entered into the imagi-
nation of the wildest writers of romance
or knight-errantry.
The amazing crowd of statues that Air-
xound his house, appear at a distance like
a little army drawn up for its defence;
but when you get amongst them, and every
one a ssumes his true likeness, you imagine
you have got into the regions of delusion
and enchantment; for of all that immense
group, there is not one made to represent
any object in nature ; nor is the absur-
dity of the wretched imagination that cre-
ated them less astonishing than its wonder-
ful fertility. It would require a volume
to