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because I not onely pretend them for pompous and 

 ostentatiue examples, but would render them usefull to 

 our trauellers which shall goe abroad, and where I 

 haue obserued so many particularities as, happly, others 

 descend not to. If you permitt me to transcribe you 

 an imperfect summ of the heads, it is to let you see 

 how farr we correspond (as by your excellent papers I 

 collect) and to engage your assistance in suppliing my 

 omissions ; you will pardon the defects in the syn- 

 chronismes, because they are not yet exactly marshalled, 

 and of my desultory scribbling. 



CHAP, vii., lib. 3. 

 Paradise, Elysian fields, Hesperides, Horti Adonidis, 

 Alcinoi, Semyramis, Salomon's. The pensile gardens 

 in Babylon, of Nabucodonosor, of Cyrus, the gardens 

 of Panchaia, the Sabean in Arabia Felix. The 

 Egyptian gardens out of Athenjeus, the Villa Laura 

 neere Alexandria, the gardens of Adominus, the garden 

 at Samos, Democritus's garden, Epicurus's at Athens, 

 hortorum ille magister, as Pliny calls him. That of 

 Nysa described by Diodorus Siculus ; Masinissa's, 

 Lysander's, the garden of Laertes, father of Ulysses, 

 ex Homero. Theophrastus's, Mithridates' gardens ; 

 Alexandra's garden at Sydon, Hieron's Nautilus 



