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writer. He was afterwards moved to the Pantheon. 

 This scene is as well imagined and well executed as 

 could be wished. The water is between forty and 

 fifty acres; hills rise from it on both sides, and it is 

 sufficiently closed in at both ends by a tall wood 

 to render it sequestered. The remains of departed 

 genius stamp a melancholy idea, from which de- 

 coration would depart too much, and accordingly 

 there is little. We viewed the scene in a still even- 

 ing. The declining sun threw a lengthened shade on 

 the lake and silence seemed to repose on its unruffled 

 bosom ; as some poet says, I forget who. 



"The other lake is larger; it fills the bottom of 

 the vale, around which are some rough, rocky, wild, 

 and barren sand hills; either broken or spread with 

 heath ; in some places wooded, and in others scattered 

 thinly with junipers. The character of the scene is 

 that of wild undecorated nature, in which the hand 

 of art was meant to be concealed as much as was con- 

 sistent with ease of access. The last scene is that of 

 a river, which is made to wind through a lawn, reced- 

 ing from the house, and broken by wood : the ground 

 is not fortunate; it is too dead a flat, and nowhere 

 viewed to much advantage. " 



About the same time we find a part of the Versailles 

 gardens taking on the new form under the name of 

 Petit Trianon. Of this work Arthur Young writes : 



"To Trianon to view the Queen's Jardin Anglais. 

 I had a letter from Mons. Richard which procured 



