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or the more rapid movement of the Canadian goose. A 

 small junk at anchor was likewise completely in character. 

 In another place is a bridge, built in imitation of an an- 

 cient ruin. The materials are, from their appearance, 

 verv suitable for such a work, being irregular stony masses, 

 resembling large nodules of flint, brought from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Schaerbeek, a village near Brussels. Below 

 the abutment of the bridge is the entrance to a grot- 

 to, or rather to a cryptum, or cool cavernous walk of 

 some extent ; the arches and walls of which are formed of 

 the same materials. Various species of Cyprinus, particu- 

 larly carp, tench, bleak and roach, abound in the smaller 

 canals ; and perch and jacks (or young pike) in the larger 

 pieces of water. 



One of the ornaments of the place, if it did not please 

 us, at least gave us a surprise, being rather of a singular 

 cast. Emerging from a shady walk, which had led us 

 through wildernesses and groves, we came suddenly upon 

 a grassy lawn, which seemed to be occupied by a small 

 flock of sheep, some pasturing, and some reposing; but al- 

 though we continued to advance, all remained motionless, 

 — for the sheep were carved in stone ! The figures are 

 more than thirty in number ; they are represented in every 

 sort of attitude ; and, upon the whole, are not discredi- 

 table to the artist. In his anxiety, however, to render the 

 sri no perfect, he has overdone it, by adding a shepherd 

 and two dogs : these attendants are here out of place, and 

 the deception would be improved if they were removed. 

 The same remark may be applied to a group in a neigh- 

 bouring lawn, of a wolf attacking a bull ; with the addi- 

 tion, that, in this last the figures have less merit as pieces 

 of culpture. A parcel of dwarfish human beings in an 

 oppoiite recess, is in still worse taste; and a drunken fel- 

 low is represented in a situation which can only excite dis- 



