Of rural and extenfive Gardening. 1 1 1 



have pafs'd about twenty Yards on a Gravel 

 Walk in the Park, you come to a noble Cata- 

 raft or extended Cafcade of Watery this 

 Cafcade is on a Line with the Oftogon Foun- 

 tain, and the Canal, and all cxaftly fronting 

 the Door of the Green-houfe 5 it has, as I re- 

 member, near two hundred and fifty' Steps 

 to the Top, and as many Falls for the Water 

 to defcend, and it is fo high, that you have 

 feveral Seats ereded for Refting. At the 

 Bottom there is a large Oval Pond with a 

 Fountain in it 5 at the Top there is likewife 

 the fame, and in the Middle a large and lofty 

 Pedeftal, fupporting a Neptune cut out in 

 Stone, of large Dimenfions, with an exalted 

 Trident in his Hand ^ a Whale is reprefented 

 between his Legs,difcharging a great Qyanti- 

 ty of Water into Bafons on the Heads of 

 Tritons, from whence it falls large Sheets to 

 the Pond, 



At regular Diftances are placd feveral 

 fmall Pipes or Fountains to the Top of the 

 Cataraft, on the Steps which facilitate the 

 Defcent of the Watery thefe Pipes, when 

 they play, feem a Slope-Walk of Foun- 

 tains 5 and when the Cataraft plays at the 

 fame Time, the Weight of the Water, and 

 the Falls are fo great, that the Noife very 

 near equals the Billows of a raging Sea, aiid 

 jRay be heard at a very great Diftance : At 



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