A GARDEN IN VENICE 



only hidden, rise the dome and towers of the 

 Redentore Church, that just outside calls up, let's 

 hope, good thoughts to those that need them 

 and lends to all the charm fine architecture adds 

 to sylvan scenery. 



The cross-paths lead to the terrace, with a 

 summer-house thereon, at the margin of the 

 lagoon, for refuge from the sun, and a resting- 

 place from whence to see the glorious view. 



Our frontage to the lagoon that we have been 

 enabled to retain is also about two hundred 

 yards in length. A broad grass terrace has been 

 made along it, with en one side a line of round 

 golden yews, broken by clumps of cypresses that, 

 planted fourteen years ago, already make a 

 goodly sight ; on the other is a defending 

 boundary wall, about three feet high on the 

 inner side. On the outer, the wall rests on the 

 sloping stone barrier to the tide that has been 

 built at the margin of a deep canal used for 

 navigation. Nothing, then, but the sails of 

 passing boats can intercept our view, and as, 

 winners in a hard-fought fight, we stand on the 



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