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 by reason of the fruitful soyl which made it flourish with all delicacies; as also for the flourishing wits of the Inhabitants, who were so famous antiently in point of wit, that the very Romans used to send their Children first into Toscany, to be bred in Learning and Religion, and then into Greece, to learn Greek and Philosophy.

Having enquired the Name of this Town, I began to desire its better acquaintance, and attained it easily in a Moneths space which I spent here: The things I observed most were these:

1. The Chappel of S. Laurence, which is the neatest thing that ever eye beheld. All the inside of it is to be over-crusted with Jasper Stones, of several Colours and Countreys, with other rich stones, all above Marble, and all so neatly polished and shining, that the Art here exceeds the Materials. This Chappel is round, and round about are to be fixed within the walls, as high as a man can reach, the Tombs of all the Great Dukes of Florence, in