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whole is a wildernefs of fweets, adorned with all forts of 

 fragrant and gaudy productions : gold and filver phea- 

 fants, pea-fowls, partridges, bantam hens, quails, and 

 game of every kind, fwarm in the woods; doves, nightin- 

 gales, and a thoufand melodious birds, perch upon the 

 branches; deer, antelopes, fpotted buffaloes, fheep, and 

 Tartarean horfes, frifk upon the plains : every walk leads 

 to fome delightful obj eel; to groves of orange-and myrtle; 

 to rivulets, whofe banks are clad with rofes, woodbine 

 and jeffamine; to murmuring fountains, with ftatues of 

 fleeping nymphs, and water-gods ; to cabinets of verdure, 

 with beds of aromatic herbs and flowers; to grottos cut 

 in rocks, adorned with incruftations of coral fliells, 

 ores, gems and chriftalifations, refrefhed with rills of 

 fweet fcented water, and cooled by fragrant, artificial 

 breezes. 



Amonpft the thickets which divide the walks, are 

 many fecret recefTes; in each of which there is an elegant 

 pavilion, confiding of one Rate- apartment, with out- 

 hbufes, and proper conveniences for eunuchs and vvomen- 



fervants. 



