THE PEAK IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN ANNE. 20Q 



" The amazed Spectator is dazled with the Magnificence. 

 The carving and gilding is excellently performed. The Eye is 

 deceived with Breathing Pictures, and every part splendidly 

 adorned that y e soul is lost in admiration. 



" But to describe y e other Apartments would take up a Volumn. 

 The wonderful Entrance of the Staircase is amazing. The 

 Grotto and Bath not to be parallel'd. The Galleries richly 

 gilded and painted and the Chappel made up of all the 

 Treasures of Art and Fancy. In a word the whole betrays 

 such Harmony, Beauty, and Magnificence as is not be equalled 

 in Europe. 



" Having done with the House we were invited to a Prospect 

 of the Gardens. 



" You enter first upon a spacious Parterre deck'd in all the 

 delights of Flora. In the midde whereof is a famous Fountain, 

 composed of several Sea-horses, which raising themselves above 

 the water and curling their scaly Tails vent streams of water 

 through their mouths and nostrils. 



On the right Hand is a Bowling Green, and neer that a 

 Circular Pool, from the centre whereof there ascends a Rock, 

 where Neptune is represented Brandishing his Trident in a 

 furious manner, defending himself against several Tritons who 

 assault him with the watry element. 



"The Parterre finished itself in a large Chanel, shaded on 

 each side by Groves of Cypress, at one end whereof there 

 rises a vast body of water shaped like a Pillar, which mounts 

 near forty feet above the Superficies, and at the top diffuses 

 itself into a shower. 



" Under the brow of the lofty mountain which embraces part 

 of the garden we saw a quadrangular Pile, every angle graced 

 with statues representing Rivers. These having Pots under 

 their Armes pour out great quantities of water into a ■ Cascade 

 about one hundred and twenty yards long ; which being made 

 declining with severall falls paved at y e Bottom and Edges. 

 The water moves the ear with very agreable murmurs. 

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