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In Newburgh a garden is made by a distinguished 

 artist which fits the house and the landscape, and yet 

 sends the roots of its art down into the past through 

 Italian, Roman, Greek, and Persian until it reaches the 

 garden of Eden itself. In another place in Newburgh 

 one finds a bit of woodland scenery which is so managed 

 as to suggest a Japanese garden and at the same 

 time an American home, and which is also in a way 

 akin to the Chinese garden, parent of the Japanese 

 type. 



Furthermore, one remembers Marco Polo, who on his 

 return from a twenty-four years' sojourn in Northern 

 China (Cathay) gave his friend Rusticien de Pise his 

 notes and much oral information, thus enabling him to 

 write an account of his travels. An English chronicler, 

 Purchas, wrote some account of Marco Polo's travels, 

 taken doubtless from this book, and one day Coleridge, 

 the poet, fell asleep after reading as follows: "Here the 

 Khan Kub'a commanded a palace to be built and stately 

 gardens thereto, and thus ten miles of fertile ground 

 were enclosed with a wall." During his nap Coleridge 

 had a dream and on awakening wrote down these 

 lines: 



In Xanadu did Kubla Khan 



A stately pleasure dome decree 



Where Alph the sacred river ran 



Through caverns measureless to man 



Down to a sunless sea, 



So twice five miles of fertile ground 



With walls and towers were girded round' 



