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Map of Antangil
Cities & Towns of Antangil
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they are received with more or less magnificence; or the same according to the matters that present themselves, the council is assembled sometimes in one place, sometimes in another. At the end of each hall, there is a high tribunal elevated by six steps, decorated with raised & gilded woodwork, with seats of green velvet covered with embroidery; two steps lower is a bench that is in a semicircle, covering the entire width of the room (for such rooms are oval at one end), all gilded on top & covered with green velvet, with partitions in front. Two steps lower is another bench, which follows, covered in the same manner as above: the remainder of the room is surrounded by six steps all around, in the manner of an amphitheater, high enough to sit on, like a foot & a half, and two wide. As for the rest of the palace, there are beautiful chambers, passage rooms, galleries, & cabinets embellished with paintings & all ornamentation, where the friends, relatives of the King, or even some foreign Prince lodge. The top of this palace is terraced, covered with stone, & so cemented that the water cannot penetrate the vaults[1] at all but flows downwards through certain small channels |
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1. One definition of "vault" from Cotgrave, "a vaulted, or embowed roof."
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