452 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



Bologna, having a position not very unlike that of West 

 Point on the Hudson supposing that the river forked 

 there, one arm running on each side. You stand on this 

 promontory and look down one lake twenty miles to Como ; 

 and this view is similar, though finer, from the moun- 

 tains being higher and more delicate, to the view down 

 the North River, from Kosciusko's monument ; and then 

 on the other side, you look as it might be upon a portion 

 of the river running between Crow-Nest and West 

 Point dock, some twenty miles also down the lake to 

 Lecco ; you then look up, as if to Eewburgh, and see, 

 at about this distance (nine miles) the Alps, in snow- 

 clad majesty. The whole promontory does not, we be- 

 lieve, exceed five acres, rising conically perhaps six 

 hundred feet from the water ; but the walks, which are 

 graveled or paved with very small pebbles, are three 

 or four miles in extent, most admirably managed by 

 means of dense plantations, tunnels, and bridges. The 

 promontory from the lake seems heavily wooded ; and 

 yet everything has been done by art. The deep shade 

 has been produced by the most charming undergrowth 

 of cypresses, laurel, casuaria, myrtle, and English yews. 



You enter through a cavern into a glen, quite spectral 

 in its midnight darkness, surrounded by immense Italian 

 pines, and an undergrowth of yew ; you are then let 

 out, as it were, into daylight, and into a charming peep 

 of one of the lakes, by the most delicate gradations of 

 dark to light, first going through not only the colors but 

 also the changes of forrn of the following trees : Cedars 

 of Lebanon, Pinus excelsa, deodars, and weeping larches, 

 which actually wave and dance you out into the sun- 

 light. 



After these trees, you shortly commence in the midst 

 of a blazing sun, among the most feathery and delicate 

 of the acacias, and grow cooler and darker with the 

 coarser varieties, and the rose acacia, all en chanting! y 

 entangled with the Chinese wistaria, which here flowers 



