Part III Travels into ^/;^ I N D I E S. 2 5 
encompaffed with the branches of a lovely PFar^ which the Portugiiefe call 
the Tree of Roots, that fnrnifhcstheplearanteft Refting-place imaghiable 
to all that go to the Tanqme. This great Reicrvatory of Water hath A lovely T/tk 
fix Angles -, the fide of every Angle is an hundred Paces long, and the 
whele at leaft a Miisket-lliot in diamètre. The bottom is paved with 
large Free-ftone, and there arc Steps almoft all round in form of an Amphi- 
theatre, reaching from the brim to the bottom of the Bafon -, they are each 
of them half a Foot high, and are of lovely Free-ilone that hath been 
brought from about Cambaye -, where there are no Steps there is a floaping 
dcfcent to the Bafon \ and there arc three places made for Bealls to wa- 
ter at. 
In the middle of this Refervatory there is a Stone-Building about three a Building in 
Fathom every way, to which they go up by two little Stair-cafes. In jl^j^^^if 
this place they go to divert themfclves, and take the freOi Air -, but they ^ ""'i"*''' 
mufl: go to it in Boat. The great Bafon is filled with Rain-water in the 
feaibn when the Rains fall, for after it hath run through the Fields, where 
it makes a kind of a great Chanal, over which they have been obliged to 
make Bridges, it ftops in a place enclofed within Walls, 'from v/hence it 
partes into the Tanqme through three round holes, which are above four 
Foot Diamètre, and hard by tliere is a kind of Mahometan Chap- 
pel. 
This r^wgr«?e was made at the cliargesqf a rich Banian named Gbfy^ who Ga^''/» 
built it for thepublick-, and heretofore all the Water that was drank in 
Surrat came from this Refervatory, for the live Wells which at prefent 
fupply the whole Town, wxre not found out till long after it was built. It 
was began at the fame time the Caftle was, and they fay, that the one coft 
as much as the other. It is certainly a Work worthy of a King, and it 
may be compared to the'faireft that the Romans ever made for publick be- 
nefit. But feeing the Levantines let all things go to ruine for want of re- 
pair, it Was above fix Foot filled with Earth when I faw it, and in dan- 
ger fometime or other to be wholly choaked up, if fome Charitable Ba- 
nian be not at the charge of having it cleanfed. 
Having viewed that lovely Refervatory, we went a quarter of a League The PrincefTes 
farther to fee the PrincefTes Garden, fo called, becaufe it belongs to the Garden. 
Great Moguls Sifter. It is a great Plot of Trees of feveral kinds -, aS Man- 
guiers, PalmSf Mirabolans^ U'ars, Maifa-trees, and many Other planted in a 
fî:reight line. Amongft the Shrubs I faw the ^erzehre or Jacla^ of which 
I have treated at large in my Second Part, and alfo the Jccaria of Egypt. 
There are in it a great many very fair ffreight Walks, and efpecially the 
four wich make a Crofs over the Garden, and have in the middle a fmall 
Canal of Water that is drawn by Oxen out of a Well. In the middle of 
the Garden there is a Building with four Fronts, each whereof hath its 
Divan^ with a Clofet at each corner % and before every one of thefe Di- 
vans there is a fquare Bafon full of Water, from whence flow the little 
Brooks which run through the chief Walks. After all, though that Gar- 
den be well contriv'd, it is nothing to the gallantry of ours. There is no- 
thing to be feen of our Arbours, Borders of Flowers, nor of the cxadnef^ 
of their Compartments, and far lefs of their Water- works. 
About an hundred, or ah hundred and fifty Paces from that Garden, Th« Wai -tret, 
we faw the War-tree in its full extent. It is likewife called Ber^ and the 
Tree of Banians ^ as alfo the Tree of Roots, becaufe of the facility where- 
with the branches that bear large Filaments, take Rooting, and by con- 
fequence produce other branches -, infbmuch that one fingle Tree is fuffi- 
cient to nil a great fpot of Ground ^ and this I fpeak of, is very large 
and high, affording a moft fpacious fhade. Its circuit is round, and is 
fourfcore Paces in Diamètre, which make above thirthy Fathom. The 
Branches that had irregularly taken Root, have been fo skilfully cut, 
that at prefent one may without any trouble walk about every where un- 
der it. 
The Gentils of India look upon that Tree as Sacred -, and wc might eafi- A Sacred Très, 
ly perceive that at a diftance, by the Banners which the Banians had 
E planted 
