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 "Now we rambled through several apartments on the other side of the hall, and meeting with nothing worthy of our notice except the traces of desolation, we returned by the way we had entered that gloomy mansion."

"We descended into the court-yard and made there likewise our observations: Spurred on by curiosity, we entered, through a ruinous side building, a garden, which still bore some marks of former grandeur; statues of marble, half destroyed by the voracious tooth of time and the inclemency of the weather, were here and there lying on the ground. We cleared with our cutlasses a way, through brambles and nettles, to a grove of beech trees; it likewise was hardly penetrable."

"Having worked our way for more than half an hour, with much toil and difficulty through a thicket of thistles and brambles, we arrived at length wearied and fatigued at an