Series 2 > Household book of Lady Grisell Baillie

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THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
In the Church of the Carmes is a handsome Chappel
belonging to the Corsini Family.
The Poggio Imperiale about a mile from toun is a
country seat of the Great Dukes, the apartments adorn’d
with valuable paintings and other fine furnitur.
Pratolino six mills from Florence another seat of the
Dukes. The great colossall statue in the garden, the water
works, the grotto, the Theatre in the house, all worth
seeing : when you are here ride the ring.
Boboli the Dukes garden is very fine, desire to see the
Menagery there, where George will be delighted with great
variety of all kinds of strange burds and beasts, if you have
any brass money in your pockets it will be very good food
for the Ostrich, in the uper part of the garden where the'
Citronades grow there is a good statue of Adam and Eve
by Michel Angelo. You will have good luck if you escape
being wet when the water works plays, they are very
pritty.
The Capins a little way out of toun, beautiful road to
it, cows are keept there, fine chise, butter and cream,
people go there to breakfast, and there is several rooms
and arbers for company to sit in.
The Palaces best worth seeing are Pitti, Ricardi, Strozzi,
larini where there is a fine colection of paintings.
There is statues and paintings to be seen in the old
palace belonging to the Duke, you must send over night
to have leave to see the Wardrobe. The Dukes coaches
are worth seeing.
The apartment of the Electrise is well worth seeing.
There are good statues in the streets as a Herculus and
Centaur by John de Bologne, a Rape of the Sabins by the
same, a man suporting his dead friend antique. Take
notice of the beautys of the Ponte Santa Trinita.
Florence to Bologna posts
Florence to Uccellatojio, Post Royal . . .1
Near Uccelatojio is a house of the Dukes cald Prato¬
lino, where are many fine water works, you pay some
thing more to the Postilions to bring horses from