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making Jets-d'eaux, Canals, and Calcades, which are, in 

 Truth, the nobleft Ornaments of a Garden. . 



There is no need of having fo great a Quantity of Wa- 

 ter in a Country, * that the Land fliould be drowned by it : * As it Ruei, 

 Too much is of no Service in Gardens, but renders Places Gentiiiy,&s. 

 watry and unwholefome, as I obfefyed before. 



The fourth Thing required in a good Situation, is, the 

 View and Profped of a fine Country : This, indeed, is not fo 

 abfolutely neceffary, as the former, but is yet one of the moft 

 agreeable. What Advantage would it be, to plant a Garden 

 in a Wace that is buried, and :has no kind of Profpedt ? Such 

 a .Situation would be very difagreeable and unwholefome 

 the Trees themfelves would look nothing fo beautiful, when 

 too much lhaded and obfcured. For my own part,. 1 efteera 

 nothing more diverting and agreeable in a Garden, than a 

 -fine View, and the Proipea of a noble Country. The Plea- 

 fure of feeing, from the End of a Walk, or off a Terrafs, 

 for four or five Leagues round, a vaft Number of Villages, 

 Woods, Rivers, Hills, and Meadows, with a thoufand other 

 Varieties that make a beautiful Landskip, exceeds all that 

 I can poffibly fay of it j a Sight of thefe Things being tlie 

 only Means to form a juft Idea of their Beauty. 



The fifth and laft Circuniflance is, the Conveniency of 

 the Place ; which Ihould be of fome Confideration with a 

 private Perfon, in regard'of . the.Advantages he may draw 

 from it. By the Conveniency 6f the Place, 1 mean, that Vitruvius, 

 the Houfe be near fome River, for the more eafy bringing to L. ?• Ch. u- 

 it all Neceffaries,' iid carrying back Provifions for the Town, 

 which is a greatExj>ence faved, when there is. Water-Car- 

 riage j that the Hbufe be not far from a Foreft, tliat Wood 

 may be had the more .eafily j that the Road that leads to it 

 be good both in Winter and Summer, being either paved or 

 gravelled ; and, in a word, that the Neceffaries of Life may 

 be, at all times, readily conveyed to it. The Advantage 

 that a Houfe has in being fituated near a River, is, that it 

 will at leaft have good and fliallow Wells, if it has not 

 Spring-water j and, by the Help of Pumps, the Water may 

 beraifed, and conveyed into Bafons as fhall be more large- 

 ly explain'd in the laft Chapter of this Work, 



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