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ready given us the proportion of the parts., 

 To judge by the appearance of a triumphal 

 arch, the width of the middlemoft portico 

 feemed to be two thirds of the whole height : 

 the fide porticos were in the lame proportion 

 to the middlemoft, with regard to height and. 

 breadth. The populace hindered me from 

 faking a more exact meafure. 



You find no trees trained up by art, nor 

 Walks, nor flower-pieces of feveral figures, in 

 a Chu:efe garden ; but every thing is in an 

 agreeable natural confufion. Inflead of grot- 

 toes they throw a heap of a porous fort of 

 Clones together, which look like rocks and 

 mountains. This tafle of the romantic in gar- 

 dens extends even to the fmall flower-beds^ 

 and flower- pots in houfes. 



One of the principal pagodas is in a fine 

 wood in the fuburbs; on the outfide it is like 

 the others, but it is higher and more fpacious, 

 I was told, that it formerly belonged to the 

 jefuits. The iiruclure and {lories are entirely 

 according to a correct Chrnejc tafte. In the 

 Jowelt divifion, or in the hall, were four gi- 

 gantic flatucs, one of a white, one of a 

 brpwrij one of a black, and one of a red 



colour^ 



