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The other fountain, the work of Messrs. Barbezat, was smaller 

 in proportions, less ambitious in design, and better suited to 

 the dimensions of the Garden. It was designed by M. Moreau, 

 another French artist, not less celebrated than M. Klagman. 



The water display of the fountains in 1862 was rarely seen 

 to fuU advantage ; it was worked by the steam power used for 

 the machinery in the Western Annexe of the Exhibition, the 

 claims upon which were so overpowering that the fountains 

 could seldom procure an adequate supply of steam, and when 

 they did, it was only for a very limited period. 



MILANESE ARCADES. 



" Not distant far, a length of colonnade 

 Invites us. Monument of ancient taste ! — 

 Our fathers knew the value of a screen 

 From sultry suns." — Cowpek. 



The central or MUanese Arcades are on a higher level than 

 the southern arcades, and access is had to them under cover 

 by steps leading from the southern or lower colonnade. Their 

 style is borrowed from examples of Milanese brickwork of the 

 fifteenth century, and they were designed by Mr. Sydney 

 Smirke, E.A. They are 630 feet long, 20 feet high, and 24 feet 

 wide. They consist of a series of arches (39 in number, on each 

 side of the Garden) 10 feet 9 inches ^vidc, 12 feet 6 inches in 

 height to the spring of the arch, and 1 7 feet 8 inches to the 

 crown of the arch. The arches are separated from each other by 

 pUasters of red brick, with capitals of Portland stone, which, with 

 the exception of one or two, cut as examples, are yet unhewn ; 

 and, shrouded within the solid stone, no one can say what 



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