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in ei>ery thîng elfe, as far as the conduB not onîy of our 

 iives, but our governmeîits,'* [îVe Jhallfee how mixavoX tbat 

 ttdmired garden ivasP^ 



** Becaufe I take * the gardeji I hâve na7ned to hâve been 

 in ail kinds the mofi bcautiful and perfeB, at leaji in the figure 

 and difpofitmi that I hâve everjeeny I ivill defcribe itfor a 

 model to thofe that meet with fuch afituation, and are above 

 the regards of cotnmon expence. It lies on the fide of a hill, 

 upon which the houfe ftands, but not very fteep>. The. îength 

 cfthe houfe i where the be/i roQ?ns and of ??iofi ufe or pleafure 

 are» lies upoti the breadth of the garden ; the great parlour 

 opens into the middie of a terras gravel-walk that lies even 

 with it, and ivhich may lie, as I remember, about three 

 hundred paces long, and broad in proportion ; the border fet 

 laith fiandard laurels and at large diflances, which hâve the 

 beauty of orange-trees ont of fiower and fruit, From this 

 •walk are three defcents by manyfione fieps, in the middie and 

 at each endy into a very large parterre. This is divided intp 

 quarters by gravel-walk s, and adorned with two fountains 

 and eight fiatues in thefcveral quarters. At the end of the 

 terras-walk are two fummer-houfes, and thefdes of the par- 

 terre are ra?iged with two large cloiflers open to the garden, 



upoà 



* *Thh gariUn feemi to hâve been mode afttr the plan laid down hy lord Bacon 

 in his âjbth ejjay, to which, that 1 7nay not multiply quotationSf I ivill ùfer 

 the reader. 



