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in which are collected all the extraordinary productions 

 of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms; as well 

 as paintings, fculptures, medals, antiquities, and ingenious 

 inventions of the mechanic arts : which are a frefh fource 

 of entertainment, when the weather is bad, or when the 

 heat is too intenfe to admit of being in the open air. 



The communications to the different fcenes and other 

 parts of the Chinefe Gardens, are by walks, roads, bridle- 

 ways, navigable rivers, lakes, and canals; in all which 

 their artifts introduce as much variety as poflible; not 

 only in the forms and dimenfions, but alfo in their de- 

 coration : avoiding, neverthelefs, all the abfurdities with 

 which our antient European ftyle of Gardening abounds. 



" I am not ignorant," faid one of their artifts, " that 

 < c your European planters, thinking Nature fcanty in her 

 " arrangements, or being perhaps difgufted with the fa- 

 " miliarity and commonnefs of natural obje&s, introduce 

 11 artificial forms into their plantations, and cut their 

 " trees in the fhapes of pyramids, flower-pots, men, 



" fillies, 



