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half a dozen of excellent pieces of Raphael and others. In another chamber (The Dukes Bedchamber) we saw his curious Thermometers, or weather-glasses, which are most curious. In an other chamber (the doors being set open for the nonce) we looked through sixteen chambers at once, and all of them fair great rooms upon one floor. And after all the rooms of this house (as, the coole low summer roomes, the masking roome, the several appartiments of the Great Prince; son of the Great Duke, and of Cardinal Iohn Carlo, Prince Matthias, and Prince Leopold, all three brothers of the Great Duke, and all lodging at once in this great Pallace) by special favour we got the sight of the Great Dukes fair Diamond,The famous Diamond. which he alwayes keeps under lock and key. Its absolutely the fairest in Europe, It weigheth 138 carats, and its almost an inch thick: and then our Jewellers will tell you what its worth. I am sure Monsieur Simonet in Lyons (a famous Jeweller) to whom I shewed
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