4 cThe History Ghap. r; 



Temple, together with a Royal Palace, it 

 rnay rationally be fuppofed ( however filent 

 the Hiftorical part of the Scriptures are) 

 that Gardening had a great (hare in his 

 Thoughts, fince he is reprefented for fo emi- 

 pent a Botanick 5 and this is confirm'd by 

 his own Words on another Occafion, ( i ) 

 I made me great Works, I planted me Vine- 

 yards^ I made me Gardens and Orchards, and 

 1 planted Trees hi them of all kinds of Fruit -^ 

 1 7^2^de-^^ Pools of Water, to water therewith 

 the Wood J bat bringeth forth Trees. 



From thefe People, and their unhappy Ca- 

 taftrpphe of being carried into ftrange Coun- 

 tries, Gard ning ipight be remov'd likewife. 

 For the' fome attribute the Horti Penfdes of 

 StauTimh. Babjlcn to Semiramis (k) the third or fourth 

 from Mmrod ^ yet others, with inore Proba- 

 Nebuchid- b^i^X ^^ Truth, to Nebiicbadonozor the fa- 

 onozor. mous King of Diodoriu^ upon which walking 

 aifid viewing his great Metropolis, and other 

 diflant Regions of his Monarchy, elevated 

 f his lanbounded, ambitious Soul above hij; Ma- 

 ker, and, by forgetting he was a Man, in- 

 c,i\rr'4 the Stroke of Divine Vengeance,vvhich 

 dipv? him amongft the Beafts into the' con- 

 trary Habitations of Deferted WildernelTes 

 and Uncultivated Fields* 

 Egyptians. Jj^q Egytians were certainly very early in 

 Qar.dpixijig, as may be collected from their 



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