File:A collection of voyages and travels- consisting of authentic writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other collections. And continued (14792880813).jpg

Identifier: collectionofvoya02osbo (find matches)
Title: A collection of voyages and travels: consisting of authentic writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other collections. And continued with others of note, that have published histories, voyages, travels, journals or discoveries in other nations and languages, relating to any part of the continent of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof,from the earliest account to the present time...
Year: 1745 (1740s)
Authors: Osborne, Thomas, d. 1767 Erondelle, Pierre, fl. 1586-1609, tr
Subjects: Neder Oost-Indische Campagnie Voyages and travels Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : T. Osborne
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
n, ftands upon a tains, bafons, ftatues and great walkshill, and the river Seine running by it; with tall trees and hedges; at the lower on one fide of it a foreft which is wellwooded and pleafant; on the other anagreeable country of vineyards and corn ;has but one court, is not large, nor anyrooms in it excellent, only the kingsclofet is pretty, being lined with look-ing-glaffes, painted with Cupidson them;and what there is of wood covered withgilding, the roof being a cupola, theglaffes very prettily deceive the eye, andthe floor in proportion of beauty to the end a canal, in which is a yatcht with allher rigging : the king and all the courtenjoy the pleafure of it in their coaches,the deep loofe fand rendering it notagreeable to walk in. The miniftersandnobility have houfes fet at fome diftanceon a piece of ground, wafte like a com-mon. At Triano, half a mile from Verfailles, Triancftands a very fine fummer-houie withwalks and ftatues almoft as beautifjl as the * Alias C//W«-ware.
Text Appearing After Image:
made by an Englifli Gentleman, 1675. 4r3 the other ; the roof all covered with purf- the beft church St. Gratian, built by the lain pots or their counterfeits; within Englijh, and has the windows painted as furniflied with pictures, and paved with if they were enamelld ; by the rampart marble. is a long walk or Mall well fet with trees i Regalio, at the bottom of one of the it had a caftle, but now ruins ; along the great lhady walks, was an amphitheatre river-fide is a rock, under which there made of boughs and flowers, wherein are infinite numbers of burrows of peo- was concealed three fets of mufick, with pie, like thofe of conies ; the trade is which the king did entertain the ladies : (pinning, weaving, and ordering of filks; in another open part of the garden, a- it is an archbifliops feat, the fituation mongft the fountains, was an infinite in that part of the country which they number of trees fet, with their branches call the garden of France.full of candles j in the midft of

Note About Images