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XVII. That the InterfeGtions of Walks be adorn’d with 
Statues, large open Plains, Groves, Cones of Fruit, of Ever- 
Greens, of Flowering Shrubs, of Foreft. Trees, Bafons, Foun- 
tains, Sun-Dials, and:Obelisks. 
When in the Garden’s Entrance you provide, 
The Waters, there united, to divide: 
Firft, in the Center a large Fountain make; 
Which from a narrow Pipe its Rife may take, 
And to the Air thofe Waves, by which ’tis fed, 
Remit agen: About it raife a Bed 
Of Mo/fs, or Grafs; but if you think this bafe, 
With well-wrought Marble circle in the Place. 
Statues of various Shapes may be difpos'd 
About the Tube ; fometimes 2t2s-snclos'd 
By dubious Scy\la, or with Sea-Calves grac’d, 
Or by a Brazen Triton tis embrac’d. 
A Triton thus at Luxembourg prefides, 
And from the Dolphin which he proudly rides, 
Spouts out the Streams: This place, though beautify'd, 
With Marble round, though with Arcueill fupply’d, 
Yet to St. Cloud muft yield, in this out-biwd, 
That there the Hoftel D’ Orleans. we find; 
The little Town, the Groves before fearce known, 
Enabled thus, will now give Place, to none. 
So great an Owner any Seat improves ; 
One whom the King, and all the People loves. 
This Garden, as a Pattern, may. be fhown 
To thofe who would add Beauty to their owns 
All other Fountains this fo far tranf{cends, 
That none in France befides with it contends ; a 
None fo much Plenty yields, none flows fo high sy, Ale 
A Gulph, 2? th’ Middle of the Pond does he, .. oak 12:\7at 
In which a fwollen Tunnel opens wide 3s, soiw 18% a6i 
Through hiffing Chinks the Waters freely flidesis °° 
And in their Paffage in. a Whirlwind. movéy. 8 
With rapid Force into the Air abowey a | 
As if a watry Dart were upward throwns 
But when thefe haughty Waves do once fall down, ~~ 
Refeunding 
