of Woods and Groves] Szc. 2 1 9 

 Countries, particularly in our. own : And we 

 may obferve to have feen very intricate Laby- 

 rinths in our old Books of Gardening, when 

 at the fame Time the other Defigns in Gar- 

 dening were altogether mean and infignifi- 

 cant. 



The third Plate is a Labyrinth of fingic 

 Hedges, or Banks, after the ancient Manner, 

 tho* not altogether of the fame Figure 5 for 

 when I come to confider the Ufe and Nature 

 of a Labyrinth, according to all the Con- 

 ftrudions that have ever been made of it, viz. 

 That *tis an intricate and difficult Labour 

 to find out the Center, and to be (as the 

 Vulgar commonly like it for)fo intricate, as 

 to lofe ones felf therein, and to meet with as 

 great a Number of Stops therein and Difap- 

 pointments as poflible 5 1 thought the only way 

 to accomplifh it, was to make a dubious 

 Choice of which Way to take at the very En- 

 trance and Beginning it felf, in order to find 

 out the Center, at which we are to end at B, 

 into a little Arbour cradled over 3 for which 

 Reafon there is, in the very firft coming in, 

 in the Center, where the Grafs-Plat and Sta- 

 tue are defign'd, at A, fix different Entrances, 

 whereof there is but one that leads to the 

 Center, and that is attended with forae Diffi- 

 (:alties, and a great many Stops. 



The moft that ever I obferv'd in this Cafe, 

 are at Hampton-Court^ where, I take it, there 

 ^re but three or four falfe Stops, or Methods 

 ^0 iofe or perplex the Rara^lqr in his going 



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