'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎412] (465/562)

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1759- the memory of Michael Angela, and has three ornamental ftatues about it,
' done by three of his fcholars, reprefenting painting, fculpture, and archi-
tefture. The other is oppofite to it, and was defigned for Galiko the
famous geometrician and philofopher.
Ta^ar/zo We went this ^ the famous chapel of St. Laurence, which was
9 ' begun an hundred and fifty years ago, and yet remains unfinifhed; nor is
it probable that it ever will be compleated. This is the burial-place of the
great dukes of the family of Medicis. Adjoining, is a prodigious large
octagon building, with an high dome, which is looked upon as the greateft
defign now in the world. Each fide of the odagon has a moft magnifi
cent tomb or monument, with pilafters of the Corinthian and compofite
orders, and ornamented in the moft elegant manner with the arms of
the family, curioufly wrought in a great variety of marbles; whofe
fine colours, exquifite poliftungs, and nice difpofitions, intermixed with
oriental ftones and ores, would make one fulped the whole to be the work
of fome great mafter in painting. This building is finifhed from the ground
to the upper part of the odagon, and beginning of the dome; the fcaf-
folding is ftill {landing, but no workmen have been employed for thirteen
years. . -
A e were then fhewn the library, fo much celebrated for its large and
valuabje collection of manufcripts, in the Greek, Latin, and other dead
languages. There is one of Virgil, written in the fourth century i in the
whole, there are at leaft three thoufand volumes all written on vellum, and
in the moft elegant charaders.
Our party had this day the honour of dining with Sir Horace Man ; and
were fo fortunate as to meet there, the Earl of Northampton, and his gover
nor, with Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Wyte, and Mr. Henry, all Englijh gentlemen
on their travels.—Our converfation turned chiefly on the glorious and un
interrupted feries of fuccefs, which had lately attended the Britijh arms in
ail parts of the world. A theme of this kind could not fail of affording
a peculiar fatisfaftico to a company of Englijhmen, thus accidentally met
together in a foreign land but more particularly to me, who after fo long
and painful an ablence, was once more going to be made happy in a fight
ot my native country, and at a time too when her reputation was about to
be railed higher, than ever before, in the annals of Great-Britain.
January jo. Mr. Nottingham being obliged to fet out from hence this day on his
return to England, I refolved to accompany him ; and about eleven o'clock
in the morning, (having previoufly taken leave of all our countrymen in
general, and of our friends Meflrs. Gregory and Bayley in particular) we
lett Florence, and after a very troublefome and dangerous journey of two
days over the Apennine mountains, we arrived at the D gates of Bologna. The
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