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all sorts of trees, both of fruits and of forest, 

 either found there before it was inclosed, or 

 planted thereafter ; either cultivated like gar- 

 dens, for shades and for walks, with fountains 

 or streams, and all sorts of plants usual in the 

 climate, and pleasant to the eye, the smell, or 

 the taste ; or else employed like our parks, for 

 inclosure and harbor of all sorts of wild beasts, 

 as well as for the pleasure of riding and 

 walking ; and so they were of more or less ex- 

 tent, and of different entertainment, according 

 to the several humors of the princes that 

 ordered and inclosed them. 



Senriramis is the first we are told of in story, 

 that brought them in use through her empire, 

 and was so fond of them as to make one wher- 

 ever she built, and in all, or most of the prov- 

 inces she subdued, which are said to have been 

 from Babylon as far as India. The Assyrian 

 kings continued this custom and care, or rather 

 this pleasure, till one of them brought in the 

 use of smaller and more regular gardens ; for 

 having married a wife he was fond of, out of 

 one of the provinces, where such paradises or 

 gardens were much in use, and the country 

 lady not well bearing the air or inclosure of 

 the palace in Babylon, to which the Assyrian 

 kings used to confine themselves, he made her 

 gardens, not only within the palaces, but upon 



