VI. TO NOR\VOOD. *J\ 



of this garden, they proceeded to the arbus- 

 tum ; through which a walk of nearly a mile 

 in extent is carried under upward of a 

 hundred fruit-trees, which not only form a 

 pleasing shade, but likewise prove objects of 

 beauty in their blossoms, and of profit in 

 their product. On the borders of this walk 

 jw about four hundred European plants, 

 i '.iced in succession agreeably to the Linne- 

 a i classification, and lettered in legible cha- 

 racters; a catalogue of which is preserved. 

 The walk is continued to an open portico, 

 su >ported by eight small columns: in tho 

 > v-nhv. is a piece of marble statuary, renrc- 



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renting Cupid Hermaphrodite asleep. From 



portico, the arbustum tends nortli- 



(\ to a circular temple or observatory, 



in \\hich a view of the surrounding 



N nintry is presented, ccmbined with that of 



.melon and its neighbouring villages, as 



'I as of the Thames, and its floating forests 



,' . J ips. 



The temple, to which they next proceeded, 



is 



