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Rh are lofty groves and wide extending parks, called by the natives, circarga, Where he had often paed ome of his leiure hours, in the pleaures of the chae and riding. His ponds were tored with a variety of curious fihes, both exotic and dometic, with their fins and tails adorned with mall golden rings. He frequently made it the amuement of his evenings to feed them with rice, and oberve them leap above water to receive it from his hand. He was o extremely fond of curioities, that he kept a menage contantly upplied with a number of trange animals wild and tame, which he collected from different parts of the world, and confined in iron cages. His great revenues were carcely ent