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very thick and very high one in a little Bafon. There fhould 

 be, as much as poflfible, fome Sort of Agreement between 

 the Stream of the Spout, and the Bafon ; but there is no de- 

 termining any exaft Proportion between the Size of Bafons, 

 and that of their Spouts : This depends upon their Fall andt 

 Force of the Water, or upon the Place where the Ground 

 will permit you to fet your Fountains. 



A s to the Depth you ought to give Bafons, it is ordina-^ 

 lily from 15 to 1 8 Inches, or two Foot at moft; tliis being 

 fufficient for dipping the Watering-Pots into- it, and for fe- 

 curing the Bottom of the Bafon in great Frofts. You. never 

 make them deeper, but when they are to ferve for. Refervers, 

 or when you would keep Fifti in them, as. is fometimes 

 done in great Bafons, Canals, and Ponds of Water : Then 

 yovigive them four or five Foot Depth, which is enough to- 

 bold a great deal of Water in Store, for the Filla to breed in. 

 as they ought, and to carry a Boat, in cafe you have a Mind 

 to put one into it, which you are obliged to do when thera 

 are Spouts in the Middle of a Piece of Water, to go and, 

 unfcrew the Ferril, or Quill, and to take out the Dirt that 

 hinders the Water from doing its Office. Thefc fmall Boats, 

 ferve alfo to fifli in^ and go upon the Water^ which- is none 

 of the leaft Pleafures of the Country. 



You Ihould efpecially obferve, in Point of Depth, nor 

 to exceed four or five Foot, tho' it be a Canal or Referver,^ 

 it being dangerous when 'tis more, as eight or ten Foot fo 

 many Accidents have happened toPeribus, who going upon 

 foch deep Bafons iiave fallen in and been drown d, that in. 

 Truth it ought ferioufly to be reflected on, and all Endea- 

 vours ufed, that a Thing made for the Delight and Orna- - 

 ment of a Garden, may not in the end occaliou Vexation, 

 ^nd Trouble. 



To build a Bafon, the Dimenfions of it ihould be very 

 exactly taken, if you would make it good, and have it hold 

 * neConimu Water well "^. You cannot be too circumfped in this Work, 

 ^R^r^^'U'^-^u the Water always naturally feektns; to runaways and by 

 hoid^p'at^r Its Weight and Preflure in a Balon, bemg lubjeato get out 

 like (L Dijb^ ^t- lejft Cxanny, which grows conftandy bigger and big- 

 ger. If you fail of perforxaing this Work well at firft,. 'tis 



very. 



