is antique, having been laid in, for most part, by Popes that have been a long while in their Graves; and there’s no House furnish’d in the modern Taste, except those of the Cardinals _del Giudici_, _Albano_, _Bolognetti_ and _Carolis_. ’Tis time now to enter into some of the Palaces. That which they call here the _Farnese_ Palace, is, in my Opinion, the most magnificent in ROME; _Michael Angelo_ was the Architect. Most of the Stones of this Building were taken out of the _Coliseum_ of the Emperor _Vespasian_, by Order of _Paul_ III. who made no Scruple to destroy the proudest Monument of Antiquity for the sake of furnishing his Nephews with a Palace. This Palace is two Stories high, and has a perfect Square before it, adorn’d with two stately Fountains, the Water of which continually spouts up fifteen Feet high, and then falls by two Sheets into a Shell or Cistern of oriental Granate, of a vast Bigness, and all of a Piece. The Entrance to this Palace is through a great Court, adorn’d within by _Doric_ Pillars; and this leads to a square Court, the Buildings of which are supported by Arches, with great Galleries well cover’d over, where we see the famous Statues of _Hercules_ and _Flora_, which are really worthy the Observation of the Curious. In a second Court, which is pretty much neglected, there is to be seen, in a wooden Case, the magnificent Groupe of white Marble, all of one Piece, representing the Fable of _Dirce_, fasten’d to a Bull, by _Zethus_ and _Amphion_, the Sons of _Antiope_, Wife of _Lycus_ King of _Bœotia_, who, to take Revenge for their Mother, whom _Lycus_ had divorc’d, because she had suffer’d herself to be debauch’d by _Jupiter_ in the Form of a Satyr, were so barbarous as to murder _Lycus_, and to tie _Dirce_ by the Hair of her Head to the Horns of a wild Bull, by which she was dragg’d about, till the Gods, pitying the State of this Princess, turn’d her into a Fountain. This great Machine was brought from _Rhodes_ to ROME by Order of the Emperor _Antoninus Caracalla_, and was found under Ground in the very Place where were formerly the Baths of that Emperor, from whence _Paul_ III. had it brought to the Palace of his Family, that it might serve as a Vista to the grand Gate; but it has not yet been plac’d there.