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great many fplendid vefifels, built after the manner of all 

 nations; and keep in them all kinds of curious and beau- 

 tiful water-fowl, collected from different countries. 



Nor are they lefs various and magnificent in their 

 bridges than in their other decorations. Some they build 

 of wood, and compofe them of rough planks, laid in a 

 ruftic manner upon large roots of trees: fome are made 

 of many trunks of trees, thrown rudely over the ftream 5 

 and fenced with decayed branches, intertwined with the 

 convulvulus, and climbers of different forts: and fome 

 are compofed of vaft arches of carpentry, artfully and 

 neatly framed together. They have alfo bridges of 

 ftone and marble* adorned with colonades,, triumphal: 

 arches, towers, loggias, fifhing pavilions, ftatues, bas- 

 reliefs, brazen tripods, and porcelain vafes. Some of 

 them are upon a curve, or a ferpentine plan ; others 

 branching out into various directions: fome ftraight, and 

 fome at the conflux of rivers or canals, triangular, qua- 

 drilateral, and circular, as the fituation requires ; with 

 pavilions at their angles, and bafons of water in their cen- 

 ters, adorned with Jets cTeau^ and fountains of many forts, . 



