( 47 ) 



In difpofing the walks of their Gardens, the Chinefe 

 artifts are very attentive to lead them fucceffively to all 

 the principal buildings, fine profpects, and other inte- 

 refting parts of the compofition; that the paffenger may 

 be conducted infenfibly, as it were by accident, and 

 without turning back, or feeming to go out of the way, 

 to every object deferving notice. 



Both their ftraight and winding walks are, in fome 

 places, kept at a considerable diftance from each other, 

 and feparated by clofe planted thickets, to hide all ex- 

 terior objects ; as well to keep the paffenger in fufpenfe 

 with regard to the extent, as to excite thofe gloomy fen- 

 fations which naturally fteal upon the mind, in wander- 

 ing through the intricacies of a folitary foreft. In other 

 places the walks approach each other; and the thickets 

 growing gradually lefs deep, and more thinly planted, 

 the ear is ftruck with the voices of thofe who are in 

 the adjacent walks, and the eye amufed with a confufed 

 fight of their perfons, between the items and foliage of 

 the trees. Infenfibly again the plantations fpread and 



darken. 



