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for the reception of crocodiles, enormous water-ferpents, 

 and other monfters; cages for rare aquatic birds; and 

 grottos, with many (tuning apartments, adorned with 

 marine productions, and gems of various forts. They plant 

 upon them all kinds of grafs, creepers and flirubs which 

 thrive on rocks, fuch as mofs, ground-ivy, fern, ftone- 

 crop, common houfe-leek, and various other forts of the 

 fedum, crane's-bill, dwarf box, rock rofes and broom ; 

 with fome trees rooted into the crevices: and they place 

 on their fummits, hermitages and idol temples, to which 

 you afcend by many rugged, winding fteps, cut in the 

 rock. 



On the borders of their lakes are feen exteniive galleries, 

 and many detached buildings, of different forms and di- 

 mensions, furrounded with plantations, fea-ports with fleets 

 of veffels lying before them, forts with flags flying, and 

 batteries of cannon ; alfo, thickets of flowering flirubs, 

 meadows covered with cattle, corn lands, cotton and 

 fugar plantations, orchards of various fruit-trees, and rice 

 grounds, which project into the lakes; leaving, in the 



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