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bonne bouche. It stands upon the Sea side, and its Garden towards the Sea is built upon three rowes of white Marble Rails borne up by white Marble Pillars, which ascending by degrees, is so beautiful to behold from the Sea, that strangers passing that way to Genoa, take this garden for a second Paradise. In the midst of it stands the rare Fountain of Neptune, representing the true looks of brave Andrea D'Oria the Neptune of the Ligurian Sea, and the man who put his Country out of Livery, and taught it not to serve. All along one side of this Garden stands a Cage of Iron, about a hundred paces long; and so high that it fetcheth in a world of laurel and other Trees, clad with chirping birds of several sorts; and to make the poor Birds believe that they are rather in a wood, then in a prison, the very Cage hath put even the wood it self in prison. Then entring into the Pallace, we found it most curiously adorned with rarities and riches sutable to the Countrys humour, and the Masterspurse