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see them.

In their Churches they have an Idea of Magnificence, far beyond that you see any where else among them; but that without taste:  their Splendore's, as they call the Box which Contains the Host, are ornamented with a clumsey heap of immensely valuable Diamonds:  as are the Mitres of their Patriarch, and Archbishop :  but with as little taste, as Brass nails upon a Coffin in England.

Massey Gold& Silver you also find in every corner, & Chapple, [chapel] in their Churches, in vast abundance; forming every kind of ornament:  one Chapple [chapel] in St. Roques, [also spelt St. Roch]however, deserves to be taken particular notice of, from its immense

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