452 LANDSCAPE GAEDENHTG. 



Bologna, having a position fla^ very un j i^g^^|;^ h ^t of West, 

 Point on the Hudson' — stip|iosinig that the river forked 

 there, one arm running on each side. You stand on this 

 promontory andloc^down one lake twenty miles to Oonio ; 

 and this view is similar, though finer, from the, moun- 

 tains being higher and more delicate, to the vi^ down 

 the North Eiver, from, Kosciusko's monument; and thpn 

 on the other side, you look as it might be upon a portion 

 of the river running between Crow-Ifest and West 

 Point dock, some twenty miles also down the Jake tof 

 Lecco ; you then look up, as if to !N"ewburgh,.^and see,,J;|; 

 at about this distance (nine miles) th^ Alps, in snow-*.'., 

 clad majesty. The whole promontory does not, we be- 

 lieve, exceed five acres, rising coni cathL, perhaps six 

 hundred feet from the water ; but the walks,' which are 

 graveled or paved with very smalI_|fcebMg|j; are three 

 or four miles in extent, most adniilMy' managfefl*' by 

 means of dense plantations, tunnels, and bridges. The 

 promontory from the lake seems heaviljlwooded ; and 

 yet everything has been done by art. The deep shade 

 has been produced by, the most charming undergrowm* 

 of cypress, laurel, casuaria, myrtle, and English yews. 



You enter through a cavern into a glen, quite spectral 

 in its midnight darkness, surrounded by immense Italian 

 pines, and an undergrowth of yew ; you are then let 

 out, as it were, into daylight, and into a charming peep , 

 of one of the lakes, by the most delicate gradations, of 

 da/rk to Ught, first going through not only the colors but 

 also the changes of form of the following trees : Cedars 

 of Lebanon, Pinus excelsa, deodars, and weeping larches, 

 which actually wave and dance you out into the sun- 

 light. 



After these trees, you shortly commence in the midst 

 of a blazing sun, among the most feathery and delicate 

 of the acacias, and grow cooler and darker with the 

 coarser varieties, and the rose acacia, all enchantingly 

 entangled with the Chinese wistaria, which here flowers 



