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we shall sliortly have a gravinj^ of it. It consists of a great 

 number of walks, terminated by summer houses, and heathen 

 Temples of different structure, and adorned with statues cast 

 from the Anticks. Here you see the Temple of Apollo, there 

 a Triumphal Arch. The garden of Venus is delightful ; you 

 see her standing in her Temple, at the head of a noble bason of 

 water, and opposite to her an Amphitheater, with statues of 

 Gods and Goddesses ; this bason is sorounded with walks and 

 groves, and overlook'd from a considerable heigth by a tall 

 Column of a Composite order on which stands a statue of 

 Pr : George in his Robes. At the end of the gravel walk leading 

 from the house, are two heathen Temples with a circle of water, 

 2 acres and a quarter large. In the midst whereof is a Gulio 

 or p3Tamid, at least 50 foot high, from the top of which it 

 is designed that water shall fall, being by pipes convey'd 

 thro' the heart of it. Half way up this walk is another 

 fine bason, with pyramid in it 30 foot high, and nearer the house 

 30U meet a fountain that plays 40 foot. The cross walks end 

 in vistos, arches and statues, and the private ones cut thro' 

 groves are delightful. You think twenty times you have no 

 more to see, and of a sudden find yourself in some new garden 

 or walk, as finish'd and adorn'd as that you left. Nothing is 

 more irregular in the whole, nothing more regular in the parts, 

 which totally differ the one from the other. This shows my 

 Lord's good tast, and his fondness to the place appears by the 

 great expense he has been at. We all know how chargeable 

 it is to make a garden with tast ; to make one of a sudden more 

 so ; but to erect so many Summer houses, Temples, Pillars, 

 Piramids, and Statues, most of fine hewn stone, the rest of 

 guilded lead, would drain the richest purse, and I doubt not but 

 much of his wife's great fortune has been sunk in it. The 

 Pyramid at the end of one of the walks is a copy in mignature 

 of the most famous one in Egypt, and the only thing of the 

 kind, I think, in England. Bridgman * laid out the ground 

 and plan'd the whole, which cannot fail of recommending him 

 to business. \\'hat adds to the bewty of this garden is, that 



* Note In the margin : — " Mr. Bridgman was afterwards made the Kings 

 ch : Gardiner." 



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