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his Queen ; and in modelling it as the Jardin dc la Heine, 

 all the constituents of English or of Chinese gardening had 

 been employed, and had been crowded together in an ex- 

 traordinary manner, within boundaries comparatively limi- 

 ted, and with utter disregard of expence. Ponds, islets, 

 waterfalls, cascades, rock-works, grottoes, caverns, huts, syl- 

 van recesses, and winter alcoves, enter into its composition ; 

 with groves of lofty trees, thickets of underwood, spreading 

 lawns, artificial hillocks, and natural rising grounds dress- 

 ed, with fine vista peeps ; while temples and obelisks suc- 

 ceed each other, in profusion better adapted perhaps to the 

 French than the English taste. The picturesque, how- 

 ever, had every where been aimed at, and certainly not 

 without effect. It was here that the late Queen, habited 

 as a shepherdess, used to entertain her guests in the rural 

 mode. The ruins of a rustic cottage, the scene of this 

 harmless sort of royal pastime, are still pointed out. Du- 

 ring the revolutionary period, the Petit Trianon palace was 

 occupied as a kind of superior tavern, and its gardens af- 

 forded delightful scope for the celebration of the noces, 

 balls, and fetes-champetres of the higher circle of Parisians. 

 The place had been reclaimed by Buonaparte, and in part 

 restored as a residence for the Empress Marie-Louise. The 

 Bourbon liveries now again appeared ; but the taste of 

 Marie-Antoinette seems wanting; for marks of dilapida- 

 tions and injuries still remain, which might, we think, have 

 been obliterated even in the course of the three or four 

 years last past. — Besides the Chinese garden now slight- 

 ly described, there is another more in the French style. 

 Tins contains the orangcrie, and some nice bcrceau-walks. 



(in •nil Trianon. 



The Grand Trianon palace is situate at a short distance 

 from the oilier, and ti now included in the same genera! 



