212 JOHN EVELYN 



cabinet, where was a neate invention for reflecting 

 lights by lining divers sconces with thin shining plates 

 of gilded copper. 



Having seene the roomes (at Fontainebleau) we 

 went to the Volary, which has a cupola in the middle 

 of it, greate trees and bushes, it being full of birds who 

 drank at two fountaines. There is a faire Tennis 

 Court & noble Stables ; but the beauty of all are the 

 Gardens. In the Court of the Fountaines stand 

 divers antiquities and statues, especialy a Mercury. In 

 the Queenes Garden is a Diana ejecting a fountaine, 

 with numerous other brasse statues. 



The Greate Garden, 180 toises long and 154 wide, 

 has in the centre a fountayne of Tyber of a Colossean 

 figure of brasse, with the Wolfe over Romulus & 

 Rhemus. At each corner of the garden rises a foun- 

 taine. In the Garden of the Fishpond is a Hercules 

 of white marble. Next is the Garden of the Pines, 

 and without that a Canale of an English mile in length, 

 at the end of which rise 3 jettos in the form of a fleur 

 de lys, of a great height ; on the margin are excellent 

 walkes planted with trees. The carps come familiarly 

 to hand to be fedj. Hence they brought us to a 





