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A natural some fine pavement about it, doth well. As for 

 bb the other kind of fountain, which we may call 

 a bathing pool, it may admit much curiosity, 

 and beauty ; wherewith we will not trouble our- 

 selves: as, thatthebottom.be finely paved, and 

 with images: the sides likewise; and withal em- 

 bellished with coloured glass, and such things of 

 lustre; encompassed also with fine rails of low 

 statues. But the main point is the same which 

 we mentioned in the former kind of fountain; 

 which is, that the water be in perpetual motion, 

 fed by a water higher than the pool, and deliver- 

 ed into it by fair spouts, and then discharged 

 away under the ground, by some equality of 

 bores, that it stay little. And for fine devices, 

 of arching water without spilling, and making 

 it rise in several forms (of feathers, drinking 

 glasses, canopies, and the like), they be pretty 

 things to look on, but nothing to health and 

 sweetness. 



For the heath, which was the third part of 

 our plot, I wish it to be framed, as much as 

 may be, to a natural wildness. Trees I would 

 have none in it; but some thickets made only 

 of sweet-brier, and honeysuckle,andsome wild 

 vine amongst ; and the ground set with violets, 



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