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This Work is fo well contrived and executed ^that 'tis thought 
there never was fteivip the world a Body of Mafbnry niQre fblid 
than this; the charges of which are yet not confiderablein pro^ 
portion^ becaufe the Stones, Lime, Sand and Water are to be had 
upon the place. . 
As to the Grand B^Jon^to which the Waters of the Store-houfe 
ate by the Channel of St. Ferkl to be conveyed ; the figure and 
.t^iipafs of it having been already dcfcribed in the Trmjkitms 
above-mention d ; we find only thefe particulars to be added ^ 
thereto, 'pi^. Tha it is to be two fathoms deep all over ; that it 
receives the waters of the faid Channel at one of its Corners, 
anddiftribntes them by two others, through two Channels, into 
the Ocean and Medi ten anean ; that there are moreover to be 
j:wo other Channels ; one to difcharge the Fafon when there is 
too much water ; the other is not to come out of the Bafon, but^ 
the Deriving Channel , to make the dirty waters,^ that it may 
bringdown, to run cut, that fo the Poiid receiving no other 
but clear and clean waters, may not be filled up with mud. . . 
This Bafon is in a manner quite done. For its ornament, it is 
tohavenot only an elegant key, but a regular Town built round 
about- it after the model of the J^/ace Rojal of Fam; a;l the 
houfes alike and equal, with great Arches beneath , to go under 
cover to the Key. There is alfo to be an Arfenal , for Boats to 
lye under, and for containing all neceflTaries to build and furnifli' 
them. 
If anyonefliallask, how far this Work is advanced, this 
Author affureth, that there is fo much of it done, that before 
the end of this year it.will be Navigable from the Bafon to . the^ 
Garonne* And if it fliould be doubted , whether the above-^ 
defcribed Store-houfe will be fufHcient to furnifli water at all 
times j thefame tells you, that the peaces are fo difpofed , that : 
below that great Magazin one may make two or three more , and . 
with little coft' convey in Winter the fuperfluou^ waters of the 
fam^e Rivers, that cone out of the Black Mountain, . into them, ; 
for a further fupply. 
This Royal Channel is every where five fathoms large at the 
bottom ^ and for the moft part nine fathoms and two feet broad : 
above, it is ordinarily between: fiKand nineioot deep, aini 
fometimes 
