"رحلة من إنجلترا إلى الهند في سنة ١٧٥٤ وسرد تاريخي لعمليات الأسطول والجيش في الهند، تحت قيادة الفريق واتسون والعقيد كلايف، في السنوات ١٧٥٥، ١٧٥٦، ١٧٥٧ ... ورحلة أيضًا من بلاد فارس إلى إنجلترا من طريق غير معتاد. مع ملحق يحتوي على تقرير عن الأمراض المتفشية في سرب الفريق واتسون، إلخ" [‎٤‎١‎١] (٥٦٢/٤٦٤)

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of the ftatue and picture are to be feen in private families, elpecially in
thofe apartments where company is generally entertained.
Three excellent night-pieces by Schalkin : and a fourth by Francis Douven
a Palatine. —A nurfe teaching a child to read by candle-light, a friar ftands
behind them, warming his hands at the fire: the light of the fire ftriking
upon the perlbn of the friar, is admirably well executed, as is alfo that of
the candle on the nurfe and child.
The laft curiofity that was fhewn us in this odagon room, was Cardinal
Leopold's cabinet of female beauties in miniature, done by the beft
painters of the age he lived in. The cabinet has fixty drawers, with feven
hundred pictures in each, all fet in filver.
There are three or four other large chambers which are adorned with
cabinets, tables and other pieces, inlaid with ebony, ivory, wax, lapis
lazuli, amber, agate, and precious ftones, but as all voyage writers and
authors of travels are full of thefe, I (hall pafs them by, taking notice only
of four or five paintings which are exquifitely fine.
John Baptiji's head in a charger, by Caracci,
Mars and Venus, by Ruhens.
Charles the fifth, emperor of Germany, and an Italian lady, by Vandyke.
Adam apd Eve, by Albert Durer.
Over the door of one of thefe chambers, are the portraits of the great
Duke of Marlborough, Prince Rupert, and Lord OJfory, done by our country
man Sir Peter Lilly.
In the afternoon we went to the baptiflry, which is an oftagon, and was
once a temple dedicated to the god Mars. It has three brafs gates one
of them was the work of Ghiherti, a Florentine, with many fcripture ftories
in Bajfo Relievo. The famous Michael Angelo, was fo ftruck with its beau
ties, that he pronounced it worthy of being one of the gates of Heaven. The
other two are alfo very handfome, but greatly inferior to the former.—We
then drove to the Doma church, which is a large Gothic cathedral. The
Rotunda vi the firft of its kind, and fo much Michael Angelo,
that he in part took from it the model of St. Peter's at Rome. In this
church, a Johannes Acutus (as he is called) is painted in Frefco, on horfe-
back. He was an Englijhman in the Florentine fervice, and behaved very
bravely. His proper name according to fome was Hacluit, by others. Sharp,
which the Italians rendered into Latin by the word Acutus.
We next vifited the Annunciata, a very neat church, with a gilded roof,
and many fine paintings. The Madona del Sacca here is much admired.
We then repaired to St. Croce, a Gothic pile of building; the moft remark
able things in it, are two fuperb monuments, one of them was erefled to
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