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the other with a black running water, fed by a quick and 

 swift river, so well and plentifully stor'd with fish, that 

 for pike, carp, breame and tench, I never saw any thing 

 approching it. We had at every meale carp and pike 

 of size fit for the table of a Prince, and what added to 

 the delight was to see the hundreds taken by the drag, 

 out of which, the cooke standing by, we pointed out 

 what we had most mind to, and had carp that would 

 have ben worth at London twenty shillings a piece. 

 The waters are flagg'd about with Calamus aromaticus, 

 with which my lady has hung a closet, that retains 

 the smell very perfectly. There is also a certain 

 sweete willow and other exotics : also a very fine 

 bowling-greene, meadow, pasture, and wood ; in a 

 word, all that can render a country seate delight- 

 ful. There is besides a well furnish'd library in the 

 house. 



24 Mar., 1688. I went with Sir Charles Littleton 

 to Sheene, an house and estate given him by Lord 

 Brouncker. . . . 



After dinner we went to see Sir William Temple's 

 neere to it ; the most remarkable things are his 

 orangerie and gardens, where the wall fruit trees are 



