Gardens near 
Bagnagar. 
' 'Travels into I N D I E S. Part III. 
neverthelefs it is fLirroundcd with ugly fliops made of Wood, and covered 
with Straw, where they fell Fruit, which fpoiles the profpe(^ of it. 
There are many fair Gardens i^' this Town, their beauty confifts in ha- 
ying long walks »kept very clç;^n, and lovely Fruit-trees but they have 
neither Beds of Flowers nor Water-works, and they are fatisfied with lè- 
verai Cifterns or Bafons with Water. The Gardens without the Town 
are the lovelieft, and I fhall '^nly defcribe one of them, that is reckoned 
the pleafanteft of the Kingdom. At firft one enters into a great place 
which is called the firft Garden -, it is planted with Palms and Areca-trççs^ 
fo near to one another, that the Sun can hardly pierce through them. The 
Walks of it are ftreignt and neat, with borders of white Flowers which 
they call Ghoul Daoudi^ the Flowers of David, like Camomile-Flowers-, 
there are alfo Indian Giily-flowers, with fome other forts. The Houfe is 
at the end of this Garden, and has two great Wings adjoyning the main 
Body of it : It is two Story high, the firft confifting in three Halls, of 
which the greateft is in the middle, the main Body of the Houfe, and ia 
each Wing there is one,all three having Doors and Windows,but the great 
Hall has two Doors, higher than the others, which open into a large Kiocb 
or Divan, fupported by eight great Pillars in two rows. Croffing the Hall 
and Divan, one goes down a pair of Stairs into another Divan of the fame 
form, but longer, which (as the former J hath a Room on each fide, open- 
ed with Doors and Windows. The fécond Story of the Building is like 
the firft, fave that it hath but one Divan -, but it hath a Balcony that reaches 
the whole length of that front of it. The Houfe is covered with a flat 
Roof of fo great extent, that it reaches over the outmoft Divan of the low- 
er Story, and is fupported by fix eight-cornered Wooden Pillars_, fix or 
feven Fathom high, and proportionably big. 
From the lower Divan, a Terrafs-walk two hundred Paces long, and 
fifty broad, faced with Stones runs along all the Front of the Houle-, and 
fcwo little groves of Trees, that are on the fides of it. This Terrafs that is 
at the head of the fécond Garden, (which is much larger than the firft,) 
is raifed a Fathom and a halfe above it, and has very neat Stairs for going 
down into it. The firft thing that is to be feen (looking forwards,) is a 
great fquare Refervatory or lanquie^ each fide whereof is above two hun- 
dred Traces longi in it there are a great many Pipes that rife half a Foot 
above Water, and a Bridge upon it, raifed about a Foot over the furface 
of the Water, and above fix Foot broad , with wooden Railes. This 
Bridge is fourfcore Paces long, and leads into a Platform of an O£togone 
figure in the middle of the Refervatory, where there are Steps to defcend 
into the Water, which is but about a Foot lower than the Platform : There 
are Pipes in the eight Angles of it, and in the Pillars of the Railes, from 
whence the Water plays on all fides,which makes a very lovely fight.Inthe 
middle of the Platform there is a little Houfe built two Stories high, and 
of an Odogone figure alfo -, each Story hath a little Room with eight 
Doors, and round the fécond Story there is a Balcony to walk in : The 
Roof of this Building which is flat, is bordered with Balifters, and covers 
the whole Platform alfo : That Roof is fupported by fixteen woodden Pil- 
lars, as big as a Mans Body, and about three Fathom high, (if you com- 
prehend tiheir Capitals,) and there are two of them at each Angle, of which 
one refts upon the Wall of the Houfe, and the other is near the Railes that 
go round it. 
The Garden wherein this Refervatory is, is planted with Flowers and 
Fruit-trees : All are in very good order, and in this, as well as in the firft 
Garden, there are lovely Walks well Gravelled, and Bordered with divers 
Flowers : There runs a Canal in the middle of the great Walk, which is 
four Foot over, and carries away what it receives from feveral little Foun- 
tains of Water, that are alfo in the middle of that Walk, at certain di- 
ftances : In fliort, this Garden is very large, and bounded.by a Wall which 
hath a great Gate in the middle that opens into a Clofe of a large extent. 
Planted with Fruit-trees, and as neatly contrived as the Gardens. 
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