.Chap- X. of Gardening. zi 



have had Bafons of Ciment fitted up again, which had laid 

 lo or 12 Years without Water, and made very good, by 

 pecking it off to the quick, and plaiftering it over anew. 



You may farther obferve, not to employ Clay unlefs iii' 

 moift Places 5 it keeps much better there than in dry Coun- 

 tries, and you have not the Trouble of doing it over again 

 from time to time. Ciment is mod proper in dry and 

 barren Ground, and where Clay is fcarce, becaufe it natu-- 

 rally loves Drought and Heat. As for Lead, you may em- 

 ploy it any where, but with as much good Husbandry as . 

 poffible : It is more made ufe of for Pipes than for Bafons, , 

 unlefs it be in fmall Bafons upon Terralfes, in Cafcades, 

 and other Places where you would not dig deep, for fear, 

 of killing your fine Trees. , 



There are fome Countries where there needs neither • 

 Clay nor Ciment to make Bafons, the Earth holding the 

 Water naturally. This is a kind of free Earth, which^ 

 needs no more than to be tempered, and filled into a 

 Trench of three Foot broad, after having lined it, upon the - 

 fide next the Water, with a Wall of Mafonry of two Foot : 

 thick, to keep up this Earth, which does the Office of the : 

 inner Wall in the Bafons before mentioned. 



I N Languedoc and Pro^oence^ they make ufe of a kind of vitruvins 

 Earth called Porzoldiia^ which has the Property of ^vov^nng fpe^^softhis 

 hard under Water, and is extremely durable ^ 'tis with f/"^^^^' 

 this Earth they make their Bafons : Tliey mix it with Lime, ^' 

 and ufe it as Ciment, with which it may properly be com- ^ 

 pared, making, in a manner, the fame Mortar. 



I N Places where there is much Water, and a great Fall 

 of Ground, you may, befides Bafons, and large Pieces of 

 Water, contrive alfo Cafcades, ^ Gullets, and f Buffets .of 

 Water, C7c. as well in the Walks, as on the Stairs and cLmehmtr. 

 Flights of Steps: Nothing is moreagreeable and convenient j 

 for the Bafons above fupply them below, and are made to fofjgfor 



the Water to - 



runm, which u now and then merrupted by link Eafem, mm form of Shells^ wIM^tbrow vp fmall 

 Spouts of Water, ^ 



\ BuflPec d' Eau h comrnGnly a Marble table 'm a Garden ; over which are feveral Shelves ratfed 

 pyramldallj,- fet out with Vejfels of gilt Brafh about M'kk ths Wuter falls ^ and -makes fbem look . 

 lik^ Crjjtal ^arnijhed with Vermilion^ 



