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cabinet shall be in the shape of a rock : therefore the said 

 cabinet shall be on the sides of the North and West masoned 

 against the terriers or rocks, so that in descending from the 

 high land, one can come upon the said cabinet without 

 knowing there is any building below ; and to make the cabinet 

 pleasanter, I shall plant upon its vault several bushes bearing 

 fruits good to nourish birds, and also certain herbs, whose 

 seeds they love, to accustom the said birds to repose and 

 utter their songlets on the said bushes, to give pleasure to 

 those within the cabinet and garden, and on its outside will 

 be masonry of great stones of rocks, unpolished and rough- 

 hewn, in order that the outside of the cabinet may represent 

 no shape of building : and with the masonry I shall introduce 

 a canal of water, which I shall cause to pass within the wall, 

 and thus masoned in the wall, I shall distribute it in several 

 directions by jets, in such a way as shall appear that they 

 issued from the rock like water-falls . . . when the cabinet 

 is thus masoned I shall cover it with various colours of enamels 

 from the top of the vaults to the foot; this done I shall 

 make a great fire within the cabinet, until the said enamels 

 are melted or liquified on the masonry — and the enamels 

 liquifying will run and fuse, and in fusing will form very 

 pleasant figures and ideas, and the fire being put out, the 

 enamels will be found to have covered the joints of the bricks 

 in such a way that the cabinet will appear all of one piece — 

 and the cabinet will glow with such a lustre that the lizards 

 and langrottes entering will behold themselves as in a 

 mirror, and will admire the statues; and if any one surprises 

 them, they will not be able to ascend the wall of the cabinet 

 because of its polish, and in this way the cabinet will last 

 for ever, and will require no tapestry, for its decoration will be 

 of such beauty as if it were jasper or porphyry or well-polished 

 calcedony. 



I have not found in this world a greater source of delight 

 than to possess a beautiful garden; thus God, having created 

 the earth for the service of man, placed him in a garden in 



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