House and Garden 
June 8, 1714. Architects may deem it fort¬ 
unate that this tragedy occurred at a point 
which enabled the monument later erected to 
be viewed as the terminus of a long vista 
through the grounds. Under a sandstone 
vault erected by the architect Shuster in 
1866 was placed twelve years later a large 
statue of the Electress, carved in Carrara 
marble by Prof. Englehart. 
'There are few Hanoverians who do not 
speak with admiration of the waterworks 
at Herrenhausen, particularly the Great 
Fountain, which is widely known by the 
vertical jet of water which it tosses 220 
feet into the air. 'The stream rises from a 
basin which is level with the center of the 
garden, and the volume of water thus scat¬ 
tered by the wind far above the heads of 
spectators is the central jet in a group of 
gracefully curving sprays at the base. There 
are other fountains in the grounds whose 
jets take the forms of sun’s rays or the shape 
ot tulips, but the most beautiful, perhaps, 
ot all the waterworks is the so-called Cas¬ 
cade. This occupies a wall of the eastern 
wing ot the palace, and it consists ot several 
vertical rows of five small basins attached to 
the wall. The water entering the upper 
basin overflows and enters and overflows in 
turn each succeeding one below. Between 
each series of basins are niches con¬ 
taining statues, and the walls are roughly 
stuccoed and partially covered with vines. 
Enrichment by means of plants is completed 
by magnificent blooming specimens which 
grow in pots placed upon the ground, and in 
the sward before the wall the Gunner as sca- 
bra , a native of Chili, attracts much atten¬ 
tion. Curving stairways enclose the cascade 
upon either side and ascend to a grove 
above. 
For the operation ot the waterworks a 
system of force-pumps is used. It is located 
about three hundred yards to the southwest 
of the garden, near the village ot Limmer, 
on the River Leine. 'The first plan of them 
was made by the English minister Benson, 
at the beginning of the eighteenth century. 
They were then finished by an obscure me¬ 
chanic named Ostrader, and between the 
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