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Map of Antangil
Cities & Towns of Antangil
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for prayers, & divine service every morning, which is in an oval shaped like an amphitheater, capable of holding three thousand people, with the accommodation for those who administer the word of God, & also a large & beautiful Library. These three courtyards & intervals being thus arranged, there is another fourth of the same size, or longer, where are all the halls, both for the Classics, as for the Mathematicians, Philosophers, Physicians, Legists, & Theologians, which are all in steps up to the top, & in the middle with seats & desks, in order to make the places more accomodating & capable of holding many listeners. Besides the three Libraries that we have mentioned, which are near the temples, there is one in this place much more famous, full of a hundred thousand volumes of books, the most beautiful & rare that are in the whole world. All around these four large courtyards, a space of three hundred feet is left completely level without there being anything, then joining this space, another is left, also extending all around four hundred & fifty feet wide, planted in quincun[1] of green oaks ninety feet apart from each other, |
| 1. an arrangement of five objects with four at the corners of a square or rectangle and the fifth at its center, used for the five on dice or playing cards, and in planting trees. |