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circular form, with only three branching from them. 

 Their area is generally very considerable; and its middle 

 is adorned with a triumphal arch, a pagoda, a magni- 

 ficent fountain, or fome other confiderable monument. 



Where the extent is vast, each lingle avenue has besides, 

 in its courfe, one or more open fpaces, from which a 

 number of fmaller avenues again branch out, and ter- 

 minate at many buildings, erected in the woods, for 

 various purpofes ; all which, without any confusion, add 

 to the variety and intricacy of thefe compositions; giving 

 them an appearance of immensity not to be conceived, 

 but by fuch as have feen them : and wherever a deep 

 valley, a large river, or an arm of the fea, interrupt and 

 break off the courfe of the avenues, the plantations are 

 neverthelefs continued on the opposite fhore, in order 

 to make them appear more considerable. 



In straight roads, of fmaller dimensions, the Chinefe 

 very artfully imitate the irregular workings of nature ; for 

 although the general direction be a straight line, yet they 



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