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Excerpt from The Lady's Travels Into Spain, or a Genuine Relation of the Religion, Laws, Commerce, Customs, and Manners of That Country, Vol. 2The crois-walks, which go from one apart ment to another. This building has the fault of being too low, the rooms are large, fiately, and adorned with curious paintings. Every thing ihines with gold and lively colours, with which the ceilings 3nd floors are beau tified. I took notice in the great gallery, of the entry of (been Elizabeth, mother to the late Queen; (he is on horfeback, with a mi? And farthingale, (he has a hat trimmed with jewels and a plume of feathers {he is fat, fair, and pleafiug 3 [he has fine eyes, and her looks are Tweet and ingenious. The room for afiing plays in, is well defigned, very large, all well fet out with carving and gild ing, there may fit fifteen in a box without in convenience to each other, they have all let tice windows, and the King's box is richly gilt; there are neither galleries nor amphi theatre, every one fits Upon benches on the floor. 011 the fide of the terrace is the flatue of Philip II. Upon a horfe of bral's, this piece is of great value, more that are curious picare themfelves with taking a draught of him. The park is above a good league in. Compafs, there are in it divers feparate lodges, very handfome, and which have good accommo dation Of room there is a canal which is.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Lady's Travels Into Spain, or a Genuine Relation of the Religion, Laws, Commerce, Customs, and Manners of That Country, Vol. 2The crois-walks, which go from one apart ment to another. This building has the fault of being too low, the rooms are large, fiately, and adorned with curious paintings. Every thing ihines with gold and lively colours, with which the ceilings 3nd floors are beau tified. I took notice in the great gallery, of the entry of (been Elizabeth, mother to the late Queen; (he is on horfeback, with a mi? And farthingale, (he has a hat trimmed with jewels and a plume of feathers {he is fat, fair, and pleafiug 3 [he has fine eyes, and her looks are Tweet and ingenious. The room for afiing plays in, is well defigned, very large, all well fet out with carving and gild ing, there may fit fifteen in a box without in convenience to each other, they have all let tice windows, and the King's box is richly gilt; there are neither galleries nor amphi theatre, every one fits Upon benches on the floor. 011 the fide of the terrace is the flatue of Philip II. Upon a horfe of bral's, this piece is of great value, more that are curious picare themfelves with taking a draught of him. The park is above a good league in. Compafs, there are in it divers feparate lodges, very handfome, and which have good accommo dation Of room there is a canal which is.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.