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TJic Country Gentleman s Magazine 



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CONSTRUCTION OF FOUNTAINS. 



IN a previous number of the Magazine, we 

 had something to say on the construction 

 of fountains, and we advocated their being 

 placed in all gardens which possessed suit- 

 able surroundings. In the neighbourhood of 

 London and other large cities, man}^ are the 

 attempts to produce something ornamental in 



basin sunk in the ground, from the centre of 

 which starts the jet, the splashing of which, as 

 it falls into the basin, sounds so pleasantly in 

 the ears of the passer-by. We shall en- 

 deavour to instruct our readers how such 

 an unpretending fountain can be made. 

 Fig. I represents a section through the 



I.— Section of Fountain Basin. 



the outward form of the basin. This we con- 

 ceive to be a mistake. If any of our readers 

 would like to see our beau-ideal of an unpre- 

 tending fountain, suitable for a suburban villa, 

 let him pay a visit to Fountain Court in the 

 Middle Temple, within loo yards of Temple 

 Bar, and in the very heart of London, and 



centre of the fountain basin of, say 15 feet 

 diameter, a a, at the sides, are the " rim- 

 stones;" /; b b, concrete-lining of the bottom, 

 carried up around and enclosing the rim- 

 stones ; c, the pipe for jet ; d d d, gravel or 

 rubble-stone under the concrete-lining ; c c, 

 supply pipe ; ff, waste-pipe ; 5-, plug in bottom 



Fig. 2,— Half section of Fountain Basin. 



there he will be able to refresh his eyes with 

 the modest sparkling little fountain that has 

 sent uj) its dancing jet for more than two 

 hundred years, and in the contemplation of 

 which Dr Johnson and Goldsmith used to 

 delight. We have nothing here in the shape 

 of architectural embellishments — merely a 



of basin ; h A, surface of water inside basin 

 and / /, surface of ground outside basin. 



The method of construction is : — First, 

 to dig a pit of the diameter and depth in- 

 dicated by the cut, allowing room in the 

 bottom, if the material is clay or other lieavy 

 soil, sufficient for iS inches to 2 feet of 



