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with it, and which may be, as I remember, 

 about three hundred paces long, and broad in 

 proportion ; the border set with standard lau- 

 rels, and at large distances, which have the 

 beauty of orange-trees, out of flower and fruit ; 

 from this walk are three descents by many 

 stone steps, in the middle and at each end, into 

 a very large parterre. This is divided into 

 quarters by gravel-walks, and adorned with 

 two fountains and eight statues in the several 

 quarters ; at the end of the terrace-walk are 

 two summer-houses, and the sides of the par- 

 terre are ranged with two large cloisters, open 

 to the garden, upon arches of stone, and end- 

 ing with two other summer-houses even with 

 the cloisters, which are paved with stone, and 

 designed for walks of shade, there being none 

 other in the whole parterre. Over these two 

 cloisters are two terraces covered with lead, 

 and fenced with balusters, and the passage into 

 these airy walks is out of the two summer- 

 houses, at the end of the first terrace-walk. 

 The cloister facing the south is covered with 

 vines, and would have been proper for an 

 orange-house, and the other for myrtles, or 

 other more common greens, and had, I doubt 

 not, been cast for that purpose, if this piece of 

 gardening had been then in as much vogue as 

 it is now. 



