'480 PALAIS ROYAL. 



on a white marble fhaft fmaller at bottom than at 

 top. 



In order that the garden, at leaft to the eye, might 

 lofe nothing in its fpacioufnefs by this erection , the 

 windows on both lides are placed fo exactly oppolite to 

 each other, that one fees through the circus into the 

 arcades of the palais. This difpofition produces the 

 delired effect; efpecially as the windows are broad, 

 high and clear. The whole is crowned by a balluf- 

 trade, elegantly inclofing a terrace, planted with all 

 manner of fhrubs, plants, and flowers. 



Four avantcorps, whereof two project femicircularly 

 at each end, and the two others in ftraight lines in the 

 middle, refting each on twelve ionic columns, and 

 decorated with green treliffes, with vafes and bulls. In 

 every one of them are three doors, or entrances. From 

 one to the other of thefe avantcorps, run canals fix 

 foot in width, full of running water, which is fupplied 

 to them by fountains, fpringing one among another in 

 Angle and threefold fpouts. Thefe canals are furnimed 

 on the lides with a fubftantial and elegantly wrought 

 iron railing. 



The middle door in each of thefe avantcorps leads 

 into a veftibule, with a Itaircafe to the right and left, 

 defcending into the fubterranean gallery, and into the 

 grand hall. Each of the remaining two entrances con- 

 duct to a particular veftibule, leading to the upper 

 galleries, and to a ftair by which we go upon the terrace 

 which is over thefe galleries. 



The inlide of the building, on the ground level, is 

 a fpacious hall, nicely floored, three hundred paces 



long 



