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The Voyage

hill, and from one of the Balconies it shews you Rome some two and thirty miles of. Its built in a Pentagone (if I remember well) without, and round within. The Chambers for all that, are square, and well proportioned, The chief of these chambers are painted by the hand of Pietro Orbista, florishing thus upon the noble actions of Paulus III. Among, the other chambers, the whispering chamber is curious, for four men here standing; each one in one of the four corners of this great chamber, hear distinctly what any of them whispers in a low tone in his corner, their faces being turned to the wall, and yet those that stand in the midst of the chamber cannot hear it. The other chamber is no less curious, where standing in the midst of it, and stamping hard with your foot, those that are without at the door, think they hear the cracks or reports of Pistols. The other roomes here also, as the Kitchin all of one stone, the low Cave also with the pillar in it, cut like-wise