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a rugged artificial rock, whence a rushing 
cascade of water will fall and he collected in 
a reservoir. An aviary with a cupola for 
song birds will be placed on top of the rock; 
an open brook will issue from the reservoir, 
run through the pheasantry, and flow into 
the fish pond. Your Excellency will 
recognize from all this how much more 
delightful it will be to find so many animate 
things rather that a statue or a picture; 
with the murmuring of the water, 
the singing of the birds, the leafing 
out of the trees that were so large 
when planted, and the glimpses of 
the beautiful pheasants, this sylvan 
retreat will become a more charming 
situation for repose than any of 
those that the poets take so much 
delight in describing. The grove is 
already completed, but the cascade 
is still to be made, unless you 
should send other commands; the 
rest of the work is stopped for the 
time being. A small 
drawing will show Your Excellency 
the English park, in the quadrangle 
in front of the stable, that is so 
wonderfully successful through the 
care taken in transplanting such large 
trees all alive, and owing to their 
strength, it will be possible to walk 
there quite freely in a heavy shade 
in two years’ time. The latter is 
entirely finished, containing even 
mountainous and exotic plants, and 
Your Eixcellency can still further 
embellish it with a few from America, 
even though here they are extremely 
rare and very seldom found. The 
only things necessary besides all this, 
will be a pavilion in the Chinese 
style on the little island, adorned 
with those elegant trifles and luxuries which 
Your E xcellency knows so well how to order 
in person, and a few other ornaments scattered 
with taste among the hedges and little vales. 
Flowers and sweet smelling herbs are always 
cultivated below the winding path and are 
succeeding so delightfully that I should not 
blush to have Your Excellency see them even 
at the present time. In carrying out the 
project of the pavilion Your Excellency will 
probably also arrange for recesses for various 
rustic seats and benches and then a more 
charming retreat in Summer cannot be de¬ 
sired. On one side the walk commences that 
formerly led to the labyrinth, but where now 
is found, as the result of another design, a 
highly agreeable feature of the garden, formed 
by one of those mounts with a winding path 
having one of the old statues restored, a 
Bacchus, in the centre.The winding 
path, so easily ascended, is bordered with 
vines, a very suitable decoration to this 
particular place when they are full of fruit 
.An irregular grove winds around 
the other quadrangle leaving a large space 
in the centre where there can bean enclosure 
for deer and other animals, and a walk encir¬ 
cling it all can be made entirely in the shade, 
The little brook runs through the centre of 
this square and makes a drinking pool at the 
extreme limit for the convenience of the 
animals; there is a promontory planted with 
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