Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 79 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 79: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or memoir titled "A Month's Tour" (page 79). The text describes architectural features the narrator has observed, including a round building modeled after the casino at Naples with Doric pillars and statues of classical deities, and a Gothic temple in a shrubbery with painted glass windows and marble floors. The passage concludes by mentioning a decorative water feature adorned with a Carolina duck.
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A MONTH'’s TOUR 79 diftance from the houfe, after the plan of the caffino at Naples, is- the completett piece of architecture I ever beheld. The form of it is round, fupported by pillars of the Doric order, ornamented by the Compofite ftyle. Atthe top, on theS. fide, are two admirable ftatues of Venus and Apollo; onthe N.. two of Ceres and Bacchus. In-the fhrubbery is a fine Gothic tem- ple, with windows.of painted glafs, and a floor of moft beautiful marble. From the.temple is feen the bay thro’ a narrow vifta. Before it is a piece of water,.on which was a Carolina duck, a moft deli- cate fowl about the fize of a teal, adorned with comicbooks.com