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 laces, and Pallaces as fine as art and cost; or as Marble and Painting can make them.

Having said thus much of Genua in general, I will now come to the particulars that are to be seen in it.

1. The Domo, or great Church of St. Laurence presents it self to my sight: Its the Cathedral of the Archbishop, who, when I passed that way last, was Cardinal Durazzo, a man of great Vertue and Piety. This Church is of a noble Structure, all of black and white Marble intermingled, and all massive square stones. In a Chappel over against the Pulpit, is kept reverently an authentick Relick of St. John Baptist, under the Altar; and the great Dish of one Emmeraud, in which they say here that our Saviour eat the Paschal Lambe with his Disciples. Both these were given to the Genuesi by Baldwin King of Hierusalem, for their great service done against the Turks in the Holy Land. Of the Relick of St. John Baptist, Baronius speaks credibly