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 ==The Voyage of Italy Part I. Page 134== who drinks of it, and lifteth up his head when he hath drunk: that of the mill which seems to break and grind olives: the paper mill: the man with the Grinding-Stone: the Saracens head gaping and spewing out Water: the Grotte of Galatea, who comes out of a door in a sea chariot with two nymphs, and saileth a while upon the Water, and so returns again in at the same door: the curious round table capable of twelve or fifteen men, with a curious fountain playing constantly in the midst of it, and places between every trencher or person, for every Man to set his bottle of Wine in cold water: the Samaritan woman coming out of her home with her buckets to fetch water at the fountain, and having filled her buckets, returns back again the same way: in the mean time you see smiths thumping, birds chirping in trees, mills grinding, and all this is done by water, which lets these little inventions a-work, and makes them move as it were of themselves  in the mean time an organ plays to you, while you dine there in fresco at that table, if you have meat. Then the neat bathing place, the pillar of petrefied water, and lastly, the great pond and grotto, before the house, with the huge giant stooping, to catch at a rock to throw it at heaven. This, giant is so big, that within the very thigh of him is a great grotte of water, called the Grotte of Thetis and the shell fishes all spouting out water