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[English Translation] could be of great use to ingenious Architects and Carpenters. The base of these floors is entirely made of parquetry and recesses of gilded carpentry and in the intervals of beautiful and excellent paintings, there are porticos in front and large Cloisters and galleries all around supported on large columns of marble and jasper of several colors accompanied by their capitals, arches, friezes and cornices of the same material, but the one which excels the most in all perfection of cemetery and architecture, is that of the Royal city being oval like the others, and two hundred feet wide and sixty feet high of Corinthian order inside and outside with pylastres and columns of porphyry of the same height, supporting a Cornice also of porphyry which varies all around with the frieze with large foliage and bronze figures, capitals and bases of the columns of the same. From the pylastres to the said columns there is a space of twenty feet outside, which leaves a corridor with vaulted galleries furnished with marble flooring on which are mosaic paintings inside. As for the tiles of the whole temple, they |
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