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26 Theory Part L 



Trees with a Brfon, terminated by an Arbor of Lattice- 

 Work in a circular Form^ adornM with three Cabinets^ 

 behind which is contrived a very curious fmall Grove. At 

 the End of the Fore-Court you find a great Court, bounded 

 by Galleries, Pavilions, and a long Range of Building at: 

 the Bottom, which renders the whole very regular- 



You go down Steps to the Gardens, which prefent yon 

 firft of all with a great Terrafs, laid quite open for the Sake 

 of the Profpeft, and filled with two Pieces of Parterre^ of 

 *Fr. Plates- EmbroiderM-Work, with Counter-Borders, accompanied 

 ?)andesirG. ^-^j^ Bowling-greens, the Bottoms of which are enriched 

 m-lo^r with Cut»work in Grafs. On the other Side are two Heads. 



of Water, which are Confervatories for the Fountains at the 

 lower End of the Garden. You defcend from this Terrafs- 

 at each End, and in the Front of the middle Walk, by 

 great Stairs made Horfe-fhoo-Faihion, ornamented with 

 three fmall Jets, which are level with the firft Terrafs, and 

 throw a Sheet, of Water into the Bafon below. On the fe- 

 cond Terrafs you find four Groves, two of which are open 

 in Compartiments, and the other two are planted in Quin- 

 cunce, or Squares, which do not interrupt the Profped. The 

 Defigns of them are very curious, and they are fet off with 

 Bafons and Figures. The great Walk in the Middle, and 

 the others, are continued, and planted with Yews, and 

 Trees that ftand detached. There is a great Bafon witb 

 Water-works facing the Middle-Walk, and a Crofs-Walk, 

 planted with Horfe-Chefnuts beyond the Groves. The 

 Alley round this Bafon makes the Terrafs advance in a cir- 

 cular Form, where are two Flights of Stairs with Steps^ 

 Refts and Landings againft the Goofe-Foot, which is^ cut ia 

 the Wood of Foreft^Trees below, and forms a Half-Moort 

 of Horn-beam, adorn'd with Figures in Niches. You go. 

 down likewife by Steps, which lie at each End of this. 

 Terrafs. 



The two Flights of great Stairs in the Middle inclofe a: 

 Bafon with Wacer-Spouts, which fall into another, where 

 there are four Jets that throw a Sheet of Water into a Bafoa 

 below, which makes the Head of a Cafcade that runs into* 

 die great Canal at theBoitonip All this Water runs along:^ 



