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Updated: May 24, 2025
The governor's wife travelled in a sort of cage, which I recognised immediately, from the description in Anastatius. This vehicle is formed of two rude kinds of sophas, or what in English country phrase would be called settles, canopied overhead, and with a resting place for the feet.
He here stood for a moment, surveying the reliques of faded grandeur, which it exhibited the sumptuous tapestry the long and low sophas of velvet, with frames heavily carved and gilded the floor inlaid with small squares of fine marble, and covered in the centre with a piece of very rich tapestry-work the casements of painted glass, and the large Venetian mirrors, of a size and quality, such as at that period France could not make, which reflected, on every side, the spacious apartment.
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