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refting places^ and begin and end with triumphal arches. 

 Methinks a Jirait canal is as rational at leaji as a mcean^ 

 dring bridge, The colonades undulate in the famé manner. In 

 Jhort, this pretty gaudy fcene is the work of caprice and 

 whim-, and when we rejîe£i on their buildings, prefents no 

 image but that of unfubfîantial tawdrinefs, Nor is this ail. 

 Within this fantafiic Paradife is a fquare town, each ftde a 

 7nile loîig. Hère the eunuchs of the court, to entertain lois 

 impérial majefîy with the bufile and bufnefs of the capital in 

 which he refides, but which it is not of his dignity ever to 

 fee, aB mer chant s and ail forts of trades, and even defign- 

 edly exercife for his royal amufement every art of knavery 

 that is praBiced under his aufpicious government. Methinks 

 this is the childifh folace and repofe of grandeur, not a re- 

 tirement from affairs to the delights of rural life. Hère too 

 his majefîy plays at agriculture-, there is a quarter fet apart 

 for that purpofe-, the eunuchs fow, reap, and carry in their 

 harveji in the impérial prefence -, and his majefiy returns ta 

 Pékin perfuaded that he h as been in the country,. 



Having thus cleared my way by afcertaining what hâve 

 been the ideas on gardening in ail âges, as far as we hâve 

 materials to judge by, it remains to Jhew to what degree 



Mr. 



