Identifier: collectionofvoya02osbo (find matches)
Title: A collection of voyages and travels: consisting of authentic writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other collections. And continued with others of note, that have published histories, voyages, travels, journals or discoveries in other nations and languages, relating to any part of the continent of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof,from the earliest account to the present time...
Year: 1745 (1740s)
Authors: Osborne, Thomas, d. 1767 Erondelle, Pierre, fl. 1586-1609, tr
Subjects: Neder Oost-Indische Campagnie Voyages and travels Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : T. Osborne
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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derable own apartment, which contains thefe commodity is Englijh lead : the country rooms, guard-chamber, anti-chamber, thither indifferent fertile and pleafant, drefling-room, bed-chamber, a clofet for moft of it corn, with fome (battered private council, another for devotions, woods, coppices, and apple-trees fet in a large chamber for his toys or bijous, a order on every fide of the road, which room built gallery-wife to give audience ferves in lieu of vines. to embafladors, a grand (tall for ballets, Paris. Paris is a great city, yet not above and a chamber for comedies with a thea- half as big as London; the building high, tre and benches : upon the fame floor is moft of (tone ; the ftreets narrow; the the queens apartment, which in every windows, doors and (hops not very good; refpect is as rich and large, but has one the paving inconvenient for horfes at all room more, which is a bed-chamber di- ftincl: * In England. \ N. B. This was before the revocation of the edift of Nantx.
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made by an Engliih Gentleman, 1675. 4r r ft i net for them to lie together ; under-thefe (the ground-chambers) is the Dau-phins which are the fame with thofeabove. In thefe lodgings there is muchgilding and painting, cabinets of ebonyinlayed with brafs-work, fome (tatues,&c. In one of the lower rooms are allthe models of the towns in Holland andFlanders, with their cx.\£t fortifications,rivers, &c. In another are ten thoufandpuppets, reprefenting fo many Frenchloldiers for the Dauphin to exercife, be-ing made to turn and charge at pleafure.To this, which makes one fide of theLouvre, is a gallery about eight hundredyards long, and ten broad, feeming tohave been defigned for a fumptuous rope-houfe, and as fuch the architecture me-rits praife ; under it are the kings (ta-bles conveniently placed for the river. Gardzriieuble, in the old Louvre, is thegreat ward-robe kept, wherein are feve-ral rich beds, canopies, &c. his extraor-dinary chair of (late, the glorious rig-ging of

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