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garden at Baroche, where each pavilion, shaded by a slight veran- 

 da, and encircled by its own canals, fountains, and parterres, is 

 appropriated to a respective purpose : the most retired is generally, 

 among the Moguls, set apart for the zenana. 



I have mentioned the similarity of the Roman villa at Pompeii 

 (lately cleared from the mountain of volcanic matter, which over- 

 whelmed it near eighteen hundred years ago), to the houses in 

 eastern cities, particularly the Mogul dwellings at Surat: and the 

 description of Pliny's elegant retreat at Laurentinum is very cor- 

 respondent to such modern structures in Hindostan. Shah-Bhaug, 

 the summer palace of the emperor Shah Jehan, near Ahmedabad, 

 and Mahmud-a-Bhaug, at Surat, bear a striking resemblance lo 

 theTusculan villa and Laurentinum, especially the detached build- 

 ing at the latter, which Pliny calls " Amores mei, re vera amores." 



" Here is my heart, here fix'd my soul's delight, 

 " Here the calm slumber of forgetful night." 



In Lord Orrery's essay on the life of Pliny, he tells Lord Boyle, 

 " you will be delighted with a little garden apartment adjoining 

 to his mansion at Laurentinum. He mentions it with ecstasy in 

 his description of that villa, and tells us that he constantly lodged 

 in that apartment during the noisy festivals of Saturn; and at once 

 found himself not only enclosed in sweetness and solitude, but 

 perfectly defended from all kinds of interruption. Doctor Shaw, 

 in his travels through the Levant and Barbary, and in his descrip- 

 tion of the houses there, takes notice, that they have imitated the 

 eastern manner, by building a private set of apartments, which 

 seem rather annexed, than properly belonging to the rest of the 



