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The garden abounds with fig and mulberrytrees, to which the soil is suitable, but notto other trees. The prospect here, not lesspleasant than that of the sea, is enjoyedfrom a ccenatio, rather distant from thesea ; on the back it is encompassed withtwo dicetcc, whose windows look to the ves-tibule of the Villa, and to a fruitfulkitchen garden.

Hence, a crypto-porticus , (a long in-closed room, or portico) extends, for size,comparable to a public building, withwindows on both sides ; those next thesea, the most numerous, on the gardenside they are single, with fewer in theupper row. These, when the day is se-rene and calm, are all opened, but whenthe wind is troublesome, those on the op-posite side are opened without any incon-venience. Before the crypto-porticus, is axystus, (a spacious place for exercise, or aterras) fragrant with violets, in which theheat of the sun is increased by the reflec-tion of the crypto-porticus, which at thesame time, keeps off the north-east wind;wherefore it is hot in the front, and coolin the rear; it also skreens from the south-