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rooms, a library, a couple of bed-chambers and waiting-
rooms, a bath, and several private closets; all which are
magnificently furnistted, and provided with entertaining
books, amorous paintings, muiical instruments, imple-
ments for gaming, writing, drawing, painting and
embroidering; with beds, couches, and chairs, of various-
construdions, for the uses of sitting and lying in different
postures.
The saloons generally open to little enclosed courts,
set round with beautiful ssower-pots, of different forms,
made of porcelain, marble or copper, silled with the
rarefl: ssowers of the season : at the end of the court there
is generally an aviary ; an artisicial rock with a fountain
and bason for gold fifli, or blue sisties of Hay-Nang *;
a cascade; an arbor of bamboo or vine interwoven with
ssowering shrubs; or fome other elegant contrivance, of
the like nature.
* A little beautiful blue sissi, caught near the issand os Hay-Nang, o££
which the Chinese ladies are very sond*

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