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 3. The Dukes new Pallace handsomly built with a fair Court before it, a great Piazza, and a large open street leading up it. The Chambers are fair, and hung with hangings of cloth of Tyssue, of a new and rich fabrik, with rich embroidered beds, chairs, stools, cloth of State, and Canopies. The Dutchesses Cabinet, the curious bathing place above, hung round with the true pictures in Little, of the prime Ladies of Europe. The curious invention for the Dutchess to convey herself up from her bedchamber to that bathing room, by a pully and a swing, with great ease and safety: the great Hall painted curiously: the Noble stair-case: the old long Gallery 100 paces long, with the Pictures in it of the Princes and Princesses of the house of Savoy, with the Statues of the ancient Emperours and Philosophers in marble, with a rare Library locked up in great cubbords, are the chief rooms and ornaments of this Pallace. I saw also the Appartiments or lodgings of the old Dutchesse Madame