23+ JOHN EVELYN 



furniture of tapistry, beds, &c. and the gardens are 

 delicious and full of fountaines. In the grove sits Pan 

 feeding his flock, the water making a melodious sound 

 through his pipe ; and an Hercules whose club yields 

 a shower of water which falling into a greate shell 

 has a naked woman riding on the backs of dolphins. 

 In another grotto is Vulcan and his family, the walls 

 richly compos'd of corals, shells, coper, and marble 

 figures, with the hunting of severall beasts, moving by 

 the force of water. Here, having been well washed 

 for our curiosity, we went down a large walke, at the 

 sides whereof several slender streams of water gush 

 out of pipes concealed underneath, that interchangeably 

 fall into each others channells, making a lofty and 

 perfect arch, so that a man on horseback may ride 

 under it and not receive one drop of wet. This canopy 

 or arch of water, I thought one of the most surprising 

 magnificencies I had ever seene, and very refreshing 

 in the heate of the sum'er. At the end of this very 

 long walk stands a woman in white marble, in posture 

 of a laundress wringing water out of a piece of linen, 

 very naturally formed into a vast lavor, the work 

 and invention of M. Angelo Buonarotti. Hence we 

 ascended Mount Parnassus, where the Muses plaied to 

 us on hydraulic organs. Neere this is a greate aviarie. 



