130 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



covered with green mould, and whose inscrip- 

 tion had been quite obliterated. As after contin- 

 uous toil nothing further came to light, the strange 

 treasure-seeker sent his assistant back, with the 

 announcement that on the morrow he would 

 bring more men with him. But the following 

 day he did not turn up, and when on the third 

 day the guide once more found himself alone on 

 the spot, he discovered that the earth had been 

 rummaged deeper still so that there was no doubt 

 that a fresh search had been mad«. The results 

 of it, as well as the mysterious officer, remained 

 unknown, and all the digging which some years 

 later I undertook from curiosity, when I learned 

 the events on my return from the campaign, also 

 remained fruitless. 



These data are not entirely unconnected with 

 th,e following development of my plans. 



After I had acquainted myself with the local- 

 ity I have depicted, and the possibility of carry- 

 ing out my plans, I decided to lay out as a park, 

 with the exception of the gardens already exist- 

 ing, the whole river domain with its bordering 

 plateaus and hill chains, pheasantry, field, manor, 

 mill, alum works, etc., from the last ravines of 

 the hill descending to the south to the villages 

 of Kobeln and Braunsdorf on the north (alto- 

 gether nearly four thousand acres of land), and 

 by taking in the slope behind the town, and a 

 portion of the village of Berg situated thereon, 

 to surround the town itself in such a way that it 

 would become merely a part of the park. 



