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too great to he carried away: witness those rare Silver Tables which are in his Wardrobe, one whereof weigheth twenty-four thousand pound weight. From the Pallace we were led over the Street to his great Garden upon the Hill side, where all the graces that can make up a Garden, are found.
As for the Government, Fashions, Wealth, Strength, and Interest of Genua, I found them to be thus:
The Government.Their Government, is Democratical, or Popular, by a Doge (chosen every two years) and eight Senators, who live with him in the Pallace, and assist him with their counsel. The Great Council here, which is the Foundation of the Government, consists of Four hundred men chosen indifferently out of all the Families of the Town. These deliberate with the Signoria of all things that belong to War or Peace. Antiently, as I hinted before, Genoa was under the French Domination, till Andrea d'Oria set it free. Histories write of it that Berengarius the Third, andthe
