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Part I. Raphael's own hand; and some good Pictures.

The 2. Cabinet.

In the second Cabinet I saw two great Globes, which were made in this Room, being too great ever to be carried out, or brought into it by the Door. I saw also here a curious Table of polish'd stones, representing a Town in Bohemia, with divers Pictures of Men, Horses, and Land-skips: where there is a Tree represented most naturally, because it is represented by the very Wood of a Tree Petrefied into stone, and looking like Wood as it was and shining like polish'd Stone, as it now is. The Statues, or Busto's of three or four of the Great Dukes, in Porphyry. A curious Looking Glass over the inside of the Door, which placed directly over the Picture of a Man, contracts into it the picture of a Woman (that Mans Wife) which you see plainly in it; drawing thus Eve out of Adam again by a curious reflexion.

The 3. Cabinet.

In the third Cabinet I was shown a curious Table of polish'd stones representing perfectly the Town and Haven of Ligorne. A great Cabinet of Ebony beset with precious Stones on the outside, and with the History of the Holy Scriptures curiously expressed in miniature in several little Squares of rich Stones set here and there. In the top of it there is a German Clock, now out of order, and no Man dare mend it. Within this great Cabinet I saw the passion of our Saviour curiously cut by Michael Angelo in Ivory (say they) but I believe it's in white Wax. There is also in it the figures of our Saviour and his twelve Apostles in yellow Amber, with their Heads in white Amber: All these several Pieces