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the poplar ; with many other trees, peculiar to China. The 

 thickets are compofed of every fair deciduous plant that 

 grows in that climate, and every flower or fhrub that 

 flourishes during the fummer months; all uniting to form 

 the fineft verdure, the moft brilliant, harmonious colour- 

 ing imaginable. The buildings are fpacious, fplendid 

 and numerous; every fcene being marked by one or 

 more: fome of them contrived for banquets, balls, con- 

 certs, learned difputations, plays, rope-dancing, and feats 

 of activity ; others again for bathing, fwimming, reading, 

 fleeping, or meditation. 



In the center of thefe fummer plantations, there is ge- 

 nerally a large tract of ground fet afide for more fecret and 

 voluptuous enjoyments; which is laid out in a great 

 number of clofe walks, colonades and paflages, turned 

 with many intricate windings, fo as to confufe and lead 

 the paffenger aftray ; being fometimes divided by thickets 

 of underwood, intermixed with ftraggling large trees;, 

 and at other times by higher plantations, or by clumps 

 of rofe-trees, and other lofty flowering fhrubs. The 



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