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of Chinese gardening, whence it is supposed the English style 

 was taken. There is more of Sir William Chambers here than 

 of Mr Brown, more effort than nature — and more expence than 

 taste. It is not easy to conceive anything that art can introduce 

 in a garden that is not here ; woods, rocks, lawns, lakes, rivers, 

 islands, cascades, grottos, walks, temples, and even villages. 

 There are parts of the design very pretty, and well executed. 

 The only fault is too much crouding ; which has led to another, 

 that of cutting the lawn by too many gravel walks, an error to be 

 seen in almost every garden I have met with in France. But 

 the glory of La Petite Trianon is the exotic trees and shrubs. 

 The world has been successfully rifled to decorate it. Here 

 are curious and beautiful ones to please the eye of ignorance ; 

 and to exercise the memory of science. Of the buildings the 

 temple of Love is truly elegant. 



Pass Rosoy to Maupertuis, through a country chearfully Maupertuis. 

 diversified by woods, and scattered with villages ; and single 

 farms spread every where as about Nangis. Maupertuis seems 

 to have been the creation of the marquis de Montesquiou, who 

 has here a very fine chateau of his own building ; an extensive 

 Enghsh garden, made by the Count d'Artois' gardener,^ with 

 the town, has all been of his own forming. I viewed the garden 

 with pleasure; a proper advantage has been taken of a good 

 command of a stream, and many fine springs which rise in the 

 grounds ; they are well conducted, and the whole executed with 

 taste. In the kitchen garden, which is on the slope of a hill, 

 one of these springs has been applied to excellent use, it is made 

 to wind in many doubles through the whole on a paved bed, 

 forming numerous basons for watering the garden, and might 

 with little trouble, be conducted alternately to every bed as in 

 Spain. This is a bit of real utility to all those who form gardens 

 on the sides of hills ; for watering with pots and pails is a miser- 

 able, as well as expensive succedaneum to this infinitely more 



^ Thomas Blaikie, a Scotsman, who laid out many of the best gardens in 

 France before and after the Revolution (see Loudon, p. ^2>), 



