extensive, and laid out in straight avenues, bordered with walls of box, 

 as impervious as if of stone — not less than twenty feet high, and pierced 

 with lofty archways, cut in the living wall. Some of the avenues were 

 overshadowed with trees, the tops of which bent over and joined one 

 another from either side, so as to resemble a side aisle of a Gothic 

 cathedral. Marble sculptures, much weather-stained, and generally 

 broken-nosed, stood along these stately walks ; there were many 

 fountains gushing up into the sunshine ; we likewise found a rich 

 flower-garden, containing rare specimens of exotic flowers, and gigantic 

 cactuses, and also an aviary, with vultures, doves, and singing birds. 

 We did not see half the garden, but, stiff and formal as its general 

 arrangement is, it is a beautiful place — a delightful, sunny, and serene 

 seclusion." 



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