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Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt 

 but he concludes it was fomething approaching to that of 

 Verf ailles y with clipt hedges, ber céans, and trellis-wark. If 

 bis dévotion humbles him fo far as to allow that, confidering 

 who defgned it, there might be a labyrinth full of Mfop's 

 fables, yet he does not conceive that four of the largejî rivers 

 in the world were half fo 7nagnîficent as an himdred fountains 

 full of ftatues by Girardon. It is thus that the word gar- 

 den bas at ail times paffed for whatever ivas underjiood by 

 that term in différent countries. But that it meant no i7iore 

 than a kitchen-garden or crchard for feveral centuries, is 

 évident from thofe few defcriptions that are preferved of the 

 7ttoJi famous gardens of antiquity. 



That of Alcinous in the Odyffey is the mofi renowned in 

 the heroic times. Is there an admirer of Homer who can 

 read his defcription without rapture-, or who does not form to 

 his imagination a fcene of delights more piBurefqne than the 

 landfcapes of Tinian or Juan Fernandez ? Yet what was 

 that boafted Paradife with which 



the gods ordain*d 

 To grâce Alcinous and his happy land ? Pope. 

 Why, divejîed of harmonious Greek and bewitching poetry, it 

 was a fmall or char d and vineyard, with fome beds of herbs 

 end two fountains that watered them, inclofed within a 



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