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stone, built after the old Roman magnificence. About 

 this ample parterre, the spacious walk.es & all included, 

 runs a border of freestone, adorned with pedestalls for 

 potts and statues, and part of it neere the stepps of 

 the terrace, with a raile and baluster of pure white 

 marble. 



The walkes are exactly faire, long, & variously 

 descending, and so justly planted with limes, elms, & 

 other trees, that nothing can be more delicious, especi- 

 aly that of the hornebeam hedge, which being high 

 and stately, butts full on the fountaine. 



Towards the farther end is an excavation intended 

 for a vast fishpool, but never finish'd. Neere it is an 

 enclosure for a garden of simples, well kept, and here 

 the Duke keepes tortoises in greate number, who use 

 the poole of water on one side of the garden. Here 

 is also a conservatory for snow. At the upper part 

 towards the Palace is a grove of tall elmes cutt into a 

 starr, every ray being a walk, whose center is a large 

 fountaine. 



The rest of the ground is made into severall in- 

 closures (all hedgeworke or rowes of trees) of whole 

 fields, meadowes, boxages [bocages^, some of them 

 containing divers acres. 



Next the streete side, and more contiguous to the 



