EMBELLISHMENTS. 



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the different heights. The following table* shows with a 

 given height of reservoirs and diameter of conduit pipes and 

 orifices, the height to which the water will rise in the fountain. 



[Fig 68 



A simple jet, (fig. 68,) issuing from a circular basin of 

 water, or a cluster of perpendicular jets (candelabra jets) is 

 at once the simplest and most pleasing of foun- 

 tains. Such are almost the only kinds of 

 fountains which can be introduced with pro- 

 priety in simple scenes where the predominate 

 objects are sylvan, and not architectural. 

 Architectural fountains of a highly beautiful description, 

 are made of an artificial stone, which is extremely durable, 

 withstanding the efiects of our climate almost as well as free- 

 stone, by Aust 171, a. manufacturer in the New-Road, Lon- 

 don, and by Goodwill of Chambers-street, New- York. 



The increased facility of comnmnication with England, 

 renders it almost as easy to procure articles of this descrip- 

 tion from London, as from one of our own ports ; but we do 

 not doubt that when once a taste for them becomes general 

 here, we shall find them made at even cheaper rates at 

 home. 



* Switzer's Introduction to a general system of Hydrostatics. 



