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Travelling is forbid here under the severest Penalties, which is doubtless the reason, why they are so much behind the rest of Europe, in improvements of all kinds, & taste, which they are in every particular remarkably deficient in: the whole City of Lisbon will not produce one handsome Building of any kind, nor did I see one good Picture: I was told indeed that there were some, but extremely difficult to be seen, as the People who they belonged to, would not even give themselves the trouble of shewing [showing] them; but put you of [off], as not being capable of conceiving, that any Body could house a Curiosity to
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