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CHAPTER II
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'The halligator hover the mantelpiece was brought home by Hadmiral St.Michaels, when a capting with Lord Hanson.
The harms on the cheers is the harms of the Carabas family.

The great 'all is seventy feet in lenth, fifty-six in breath, and thirty-eight feet 'igh.

The carvings of the chimlies, representing the buth of Venus and 'Ercules and 'Eyelash, is by Van Chislum, the most famous sculpture of his hage and country.

The ceiling, by Calimanco, represents Painting, Harchitecture, and Music,--the naked female figure with the barrel-organ,--introducing George, first Lord Carabas, to the Temple of the Muses.

The winder ornaments is by Vanderputty.


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