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The Court set round with Staggs heads; the Chambers full of good Pictures; the Hall painted with great Pictures of the Duke, his Mother, his Sisters, and other Ladies all on horseback, as if they were going a hunting; the place where they keep Pheasants, Partridges, and other such like Birds, the Stable for 100 Horse, and the neat Dogkennel, are the best things to be seen in this house.
La Valentine.9. On the other side of the Town, about a mile off, I saw the old Dutchesses House called La Valentine. It stands pleasantly upon the banks of Po, and is adorned with great variety of Pictures. In five or six Roomes, on the right hand of the house, they shewed me a world of Pictures of all sorts of Flowers: on the left hand, as many of all sorts of Birds, with other Pictures curiously painted. The four pictures representing the four Elements, with all that belongs to them, as all the Birds that flie in the air; all the beasts that are found upon the earth; all the fishes and shells that are foundin
