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shows with a given height of reservoirs and diameter of 
conduit pipes and orifices, the height to which the water 
will rise in the fountain. 
A simple jet (Fig. 86) issuing from a circular basin of 
water, or a cluster of perpendicular jets (candelabra jets), 
is at once the simplest and most pleasing of 
fountains. Such are almost the only kinds 
of fountains which can be introduced with 
[Fig. 86.] propriety in simple scenes where the pre- 
dominant objects are sylvan, not architectural. 
Weeping, or Tazza Fountains, as they are called, are 
simple and highly pleasing objects, which require only a 
vei T m °derate supply of water com- 
jijjjj pared with that demanded by a 
ij)jj| constant and powerful jet. The 
||!i' conduit pipe rises through and fills 
[Fig. 87. Tazza Fountain.] the vase, which is so formed as to 
overflow round its entire margin. Figure 87 represents a 
beautiful Grecian vase for tazza fountains. The ordinary 
jet and the tazza fountain may be combined in one, when 
the supply of water is sufficient, by carrying the conduit 
pipe to the level of the top of the vase, from which the 
water rises perpendicularly, then falls back into the vase 
and overflows as before. 
We might enumerate and figure a great many other 
designs for fountains ; but the connoisseur will receive 
more ample information on this head than we are able to 
afford, from the numerous French works devoted to this 
branch of Rural Embellishment. 
A species of rustic fountain which has a good effect, is 
made by introducing the conduit pipe or pipes among the 
groups of rockwork alluded to, from whence (the orifice of 
