JOURNAL OF JOHN LAUDER

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what he owed, according to that, 'qui ne,~cit dissimulare neacit
regmre.' We saw also Mount Calvary, which the Deluded
Papists will hav e to be the true representative of that Calvary
wheir our Saviour suffered its situate at that same distance
from Paris that the trues from Jerusalem, of that same hieght,
and so in all the circumstances.

Thus we come to Ruell, wheir so many gallant sights
oflered themselfes that I know not wheir to begin first
the pleasant ponds abounding wt fishes of divers sorts, as
carps, picks, etc., comes to be considred. But the rich
waterworks are the main commendation of the place. It is
not to be forgotten whow finely the fellow that showed us
them, and set them on work by his engines did wet Mr.
Dick, and followed him in the litle house (the Grotto)
whethersoever he could stir. The thing that mainly moved
my admiration was the hie ascendance of the water what
secret hidden power could carry the water clean contrary to
its natural inclination which is to deschend, as every other
heavy body, so hy that in some of them a man wt a speir
could not reach its top.

The most wonderfull thing ever I saw is the infinit
art that some curious painter hath showen on a large timber
broad, standing in a corner of the yard a small distance
from it their is a rev ell put up which makes it appear the
more lively, so that we win no nearer then the revell
would let us. At this distance y e would think ye saw
the heavens thorow the wal on the other syde of it, 80
wonderously is the blew skie drawen so that bring me
a man without acquainting him wt the dev ce he sal con-
stantly affirme he sie- the lift on the other syde of the
wall. On the same broad beneath the skie on the earth, as
ye would think, is drawen a woman, walking thorow a l110ntain
in a trodden path, the woman, the mountain, the way, so
cunningly drawen that I almost thought 1 saw a woman walk-
ing on the other syde of the wall over a hil throw the beaten
rod. I constantly asserted also that the broad was wery in-
æquall and that it had many utraisings 1 because I seimed to

1 Outraisings, reliefs.