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have a particular word to express it, and where 

 they find it hit their eye at first sight, they say 

 the sharawadgi is fine or is admirable, or any 

 such expression of esteem. And whoever ob- 

 serves the work upon the best India gowns, or the 

 painting upon their best screens or purcellans, 

 will find their beauty is all of this kind, that 

 is, without order. But I should hardly advise 

 any of these attempts in the figure of gardens 

 among us ; they are adventures of too hard 

 achievement for any common hands ; and, 

 though there may be more honor if they suc- 

 ceed well, yet there is more dishonor if they 

 fail, and it is twenty to one they will ; whereas, 

 in regular figures, it is hard to make any great 

 and remarkable faults. 



The picture I have met with in some relations 

 of a garden made by a Dutch governor of their 

 colony, upon the Cape de Bonne Esperance, is 

 admirable, and described to be of an oblong 

 figure, very large extent, and divided into four 

 quarters by long and crossed walks, ranged 

 with all sorts of orange-trees, lemons, limes, 

 and citrons ; each of these four quarters is 

 planted with the trees, fruits, flowers, and 

 plants that are native and proper to each of 

 the four parts of the world ; so as in this one 

 in closure are to be found the several gardens of 

 Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. There could 



