Garden of Bel Respiro. 



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stone arch, concealed by creepers and wood. The groups 

 of trees shown in this landscape are entirely artificial ; and 



though the individuals are large, they were all planted in the 

 spring of 1828. The building, to the left of the picture, is 

 over the well and its machinery ; the windmill, on the right, 

 is beyond the boundary of the garden. This property was 

 puixhased, the house built, and the grounds laid out, entirely 

 as a mercantile speculation, by a Parisian attorney. 



The Garden of Bel Respiro {Jig- 39.), like other town gar- 

 dens, is surrounded by buildings. The surface is flat, and of 

 no great extent ; but the grounds have been laid out, from 

 the proprietor's designs, with very great care, and at a very 

 great expense. In the centre of the lawn, on the entrance 

 front, is a bronze figure. {Jig' 38.) 



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