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 content my self onely to have named them.

second Voyage was by the way of France, where I started from Paris, and made towards Lyons; in the way I took notice of these places.

Yssone a neat house belonging then to Monsieur Essolin. The house is so pretty, that I think it worth the Travelers seeing, and my describing. It stands in the shade of a thick grove of Trees, and is wholly built and furnished al Italiana. Under the side of the house runns a little Brook, which being received into a Bason of Free-stone, just as long as the house, and made like a ship, (that is, sharp at both ends and wide in the middle) it is cloven, and divided into two, by the sharp end of this ship, and conveighed in close channels of free-stone, on both sides of the ship or bason, into which it empties it self by several tunnels, or pipes: so that all this water