every one of them and have Beds of Flowers a little interspersed among the Green Plots besides other Beds of Flowers on all the outsides of those Parterres next to the Gravel-walks The Statues in the middle of those Green Quarters are excellently cut in Marble they are of Apollo and Pomona on one side of the Garden and of Bacchus and a Flora on the other side standing upright on the foresaid Pedestals The Beds and Parterres of this and the other Gardens are not only adorned with Pyramids of Juniper and Box and with Shrubs of Marshmallows of all colours but contain variety of Flowers which successively blow according to the Seasons of the Year In the Spring there is a variety of the finest Tulips Hyacinths Ranunculi Anemond Auricula ursi Narcissus Junci c. In the Summer there are double Poppies of all colours Gilliflowers Larks-heels c. In the Autumn the Sun-Flower Indian Cresses the Pass-rose or Stock-rose Marygolds c. On the Walls of these Gardens do grow great variety of most excellent Fruit as the best Peaches Apricocks Cherries Pears Figs Plums Muscant Grapes of all sorts and their props are every where painted Green. At four yards distance from the before-mentioned Fountain of Hercules we advance forwards unto two broad Stone-steps thirteen foot and a half in front on both sides of which Steps there are Stone-rails near five foot high and on each side of the Rails are Pilasters of Stone which are raised a foot higher than the Rails On the two Pilasters next to the Steps are placed two Beautiful Sphinxes with their Riddle express'd or carved and on the two others are seen two Wolfs in Stone each of them giving suck to a Romulus and Remus From those Pilasters and Rails there is continued the whole breadth of the Garden a Brick-wall that is above four foot high wherein there are also divers Pillars of Brick faced with Free-stone for the placing of Flowerpots CHAP. III Of the Second Part of the Creat Garden called the Upper Garden together with the Middle Walk and Canals which do divide this Garden into the two Parts WHEN we are up the two Stone-steps now mentioned we pass over a Canal into the Middle Cross-walk that divides this Garden and is remarkable for its double row of tall Oaks on both sides of it This Walk is eighteen yards broad from the two Stone-steps and Rails unto the Bridge over which we are to pass the second Canal in order to go into the Upper Garden The first Canal is five foot broad the second is fourteen foot They run from West to East and are supplied from Cascades that are made at the west-West-end of the foresaid Walk which has Iron-rails fastned in Free-stone that is half a foot above the Brick-wall and that hath also divers Stone-pilasters ten Inches broad and as high as then Iron-rails Between those Rails there is a Gate of wrought Iron through which we are to pass into the Gardens near the Old Hoof. From a Marble Head placed in this Wall over the Canals there is on each side a double fall of Water into two Stone-Basins that are one below the other The uppermost Basin is about a yard in front and the lowermost a yard and a half About the Bridge of the second Canal there is a Stonework that is extended both East and West from the Bridge about sifteen foot At both ends of this Stone-work which crosses the Canal a Fountain rises in the middle of the Crofs-wall and by the declivity of a Basin both ways forms a sheet of water both East and West and also the same on both sides of the Bridge Moreover out of the Walls that are on both sides of this Canal and also on each side of the Bridge there are other falls of water from Stone-basins besides some others in other parts of the Canal made by raising the water of stopping its passage to a certain heighth These Canals are all along bordered with green Turf and have a green Slope reaching from the border down to the Water Advancing forwards from the second Canal about a hundred Paces in a very broad Gravel-walk we come to a most Remarkable Fountain of a vast circumference The Basin of it is Octangular and there are sixteen Paces distance between each of the eight Angles In the whole it is a hundred and twenty eight Paces round 'T is bordered with a broad raised Stone-work and paved with Pebbles like many of the other Fountains in divers sorts of uniform Figures In the middle of this Great Basin there is a Spout that throws up the water forty four or forty five foot high perpendicular And round about this Spout there are placed two ranks of other Spout each of the ranks containing sixteen which do all at a small distance encompass that High one in the middle The inmost of these two ranks do throw up the water twelve foot high and the outmost rank six foot This Noble Fountain containing no less than three and thirty Spouts does make an agreable shower of them together and must abundantly please and divert the most curious Spectator The water of the Spout which throws it up so many foot high is brought from a Hill two Leagues distant from Loo and called Asselt But the sixteen Spouts which do immediately encompass that High Spout are brought from another Source called Orden about a League off And the rest of them are supplied from the Viver A little beyond this Great Fountain in the same Walk we descend by three wide Stone-steps to another admirable Fountain in the middle of which there are four naked Boys in Marble with four Beasts between them those Boys and Beasts representing the four parts of the World. Over the Boys Heads there are four gilded scollop Shells and over the inmost part of those Shells a gilded Basin inverted Out of the middle of this Basin the water rises in form of a Peacock's Tail spread out at length about a foot and a half above the inverted Basin This Fountain hath its Basin bordered with Free-stone sixteen inches broad and its Stone-work raised three or four inches From the said Border to the bottom of the Basin there is rough Rockwork of divers Colours But the bottom it self is bordered with White Marble ten inches round and the rest of the bottom is paved with dark Pebble among which there are also intermixed Marble Stones in divers Figures As we do ascend from this Fountain forwards we meet with a Fall of water from one semioval Stone Basin extended four foot and a half in front and placed between three Stone Steps on each side of it At the four Corners of those Steps Bases are raised for the placing of Flower-pots And round this Fountain there is a Green Slope equal to the height of the Steps by which we descend to or ascend from the aforesaid Fountain Farthermore between those Steps and the Border of the Basin to this Fountain there is
distance we come unto other Fountains In the middle of that Northwards there are two little Boys of Stone with an Otter between them out of whose mouth there rises a Jette six foot high It is bordered with rough Rockwork of divers colours with some large Concha or Shells intermixed The bottom of the Basin is paved with white and brown Pebbles in different Figures At the same distance from the Fountain of the Sea-Cupids Southward there is another Fountain in the middle of which there is a naked Boy in Stone holding a scollopt Shell in his hand through which there rises another Jette like to the last now mentioned and below this Boy there is a Satyr in Stone The Basin of this is bordered like the other with rough Stones and Shells and the Paving is with Pebbles after the Mosaick manner Beyond these three Fountains North and South the Walk is continued to some distance and from all those Fountains there are other Walks also to the East and West And besides these Walks now mentioned there are other Walks and Turnings between the Hedges into which when we have gone a little way we are obliged to return into some of the former Walks by the way we entered Lastly The Ground that is between these Hedges Walks and Turnings is all planted with Fruit-trees of divers kinds CHAP. V Of the Queen's Garden and another Private Garden or Labyrinth beyond it Eastward ON the East-side of the Palace there is a Garden that is called the Queen's Garden being under the Apartments appointed for her Majesty as the King's Garden before described was on the King's side Both of them are of the same dimensions This garden is divided into two Parts whereof the one being next to the Great Garden consists of three Parterres of Flowers bordered with Box and having Pyramidal Juniper Trees in divers parts of them The Parterres are on all sides encompassed with Gravel-walks and on the Walls here are divers fort of Fruit-trees Grapes c. besides Paintings of Floras c. in some places In the middle of the Parterres is a Fountain of Arion gilded playing on a Lute and riding on a gilded Dolphin out of whose Nostrils there do rise two Spouts five of six foot high The Basin is bordered with white Marble thirteen Inches broad On the border are placed at convenient distances eight gilded Sea-Horses every one making a Jette out of each Nostril The Basin is paved with a square Stone about a foot broad On both sides of this Fountain are Seats painted green next to the Parterres The other Part of this Garden consists of divers Gravel-walks within Arbors the whole length and breadth of it and has five Fountains in the middle of all the Arbors Into the middle of the first Arbor-walk there is an ascent of four Steps besides a like ascent of Steps at both ends of the same Walk without the Arbors or between them and the Garden Walls Between those three pair of Steps there is a green Slope the height of the Steps and at the top of the Slope there are long Beds of Flowers with Juniper Trees intermixed And at the corners of all the Steps there are Flowerpots The first Arbor-walk that runs from West to East and is next to the Garden now described hath eight open spaces or Windows towards the Parterres besides eight other such Windows on the inside whereas the other three Sides or Arbor-walks have their Windows only on the inside of the Walk These Windows and five foot and a half long and near upon the same height and they are square at bottom and convex at top The four long Arbor-walks on the four sides of this Part of the Queen's Garden are each above threescore Paces long and twelve foot and a half wide At the four corners or ends of these Walks there is placed a Cupid above the Seat and from those Seats we can see through Windows cut in the inward Arbors diametrically cross this Part of the Garden three of the five Fountains that are presently to be described Besides the four Gravel-walks within the Arbors and three other Gravel-walks without the Arbors next to the Garden-wall there are other Walks within Arbors that are not gravelled the which do wind and turn in uniform Figures from the middle of one of the side Arbor-walks to the middle of another And between these there are Parterres with Fountains in them In the middle of all the Arbors there is a Fountain with a large gilded Triton sitting on a Rock of Stones and Shells and blowing through a gilded Horn a Spout about eight foot high The Basin is border'd with rough Rockwork It is paved with Pebbles and white Marble set among them cut in oval or Diamond forms From the middle of the four long Arbor-walks unto this Fountain there are four direct Walks and between these Walks there are four little Gardens or Parterres separated from the said Gravel-walks by Hedges of Dutch Elm about four foot high In the middle of each of these four little Gardens there is a distinct Fountain and in each of the Fountains there is place a gilded Triton sitting on a gilded Sea-Horse or an a Sea-Goat all upon Rockwork like that in the middle Fountain and the Basins of these are paved like the former But these four Tritons and Basins are less in proportion than that in the middle Fountain One of these four Tritons holds a Cup in his Right hand through which there rises a Jette six of seven foot The second holds a Trident in his hand and through the three Spikes of the Trident are made three Dards or Spouts The third holds a Fish and makes a Spout through the Mouth of the Fish And the fourth blows another through a twined Trumpet All the Spouts in these four Fountains do rise much about the same height And besides these the Sea-horses on which the four Trions do ride do all make a little sheet of water from their Tongues About the first and largest of these five Tritons placed in the middle of those other four Fountains and the Arbors there are eight semicircular Seats covered behind and over head Arbor-like the Seats and Prop-work and also the Prop-work of all the Arbors being painted green Every one of these Seats is above eight foot wide and ten foot high And between the four Gravel-walks which come to this Fountain from the middle of the four Side-Arbor walks there are two of these eight Seats as also between every two Seats there is an entrance five foot wide into the Partorres of one of the four lesser Fountains All along these Gravel-walks and round the middle Fountain there are placed Orange-trees and Lemmon Trees in portable Wooden Frames and Flower-pots about them In a corner of the Queen's Garden next to the Terras-walk of the Great Garden and under one corner of the Palace there is a fine Grotto consisting of the Roots of Trees Flints and Shells disposed in
Palace there is a Garden under His Majesty's's Apartments and called the King's Garden This has a noble Fountain in the middle of it and adjoining to it there is a large Bowling-green Beyond this Garden Westward there is another called the Labyrinth or Wilderness some of whose Fountains may be seen as also Statues in it and Painting from His Majesty's Bed-chamber On the East-side of the Palace there is another Garden under the Apartments appointed for the Queen and called the Queen's Garden This bears a just proportion with that of the King 's and hath such another noble Fountain And adjoining to this Garden fourthwards there are divers Arbor Walks with five Fountains in the middle of Parterres Beyond the Wall of the Queen's Garden Eastward there is another handsom Garden for retirement or a Labyrinth answering the other with Fountains Statues Walks c. From the Cross Walk that divides the Upper from the Lower Garden behind the Palace we go through Gates into the Voliere or Fowl Garden west from those others And still farther Westward we enter into a large extent of ground called the Park wherein are to be seen the Long Canal with Spouts the whole length of it all rising in the form of an Arch. Beyond this is the Cypher Fountain and Cascade and beyond that the Viver or large Quadrangular Pond which contains the Water that supplies the Jette's and Cascades Within this Park is also the Fountain of Faunus divers pleasant and long green Walks Nurseries of young Trees Groves and Canals and West of the Viver there is a fine Grove for solitude or retirement and called the Queen's Grove Of all which now more at large CHAP. II Containing the Description of the Great Garden next behind the Palace and first of that part of it called the Lower Garden SO soon as we have pass'd through the Place we do enter upon a very broad Terras-walk extended on the right and left the whole breadth of this Garden the which is continued forwards by a Brick-wall and by other Terras-walks on the right and left sides of it The first Terras-walk is paved with Brick fourteen yards forwards between the Garden Gate and the Stone-steps by which we are to descend into the Garden It is also paved with Brick thirty paces both to the right and left From the said paving this Terras-walk is continued to the Garden Walls on each side in a green and gravel Walk The middle part of this Walk is Green about sisteen foot and on each side of the Green there is a Gravel-walk each of them ten foot broad At both ends of this first Terras-walk we do ascend by seven Steps unto the side Terras-walks which are raised higher than the former for the better placing of those Noble Stone-sabricks that compose the Cascades of Narcissus and Galatea These Terras-walks do like the former consist of a Green-walk in the middle and a Gravel-walk on each side of the Green. In the middle of these side Terras-walks behind the Cascades there are Seats next to the Walls and painted Green. From the first Terras-walk near the Garden-gate of the Palace there is a very large descent into the Garden first by three Semicircular Stone-steps and after a little space by fifteen Steps more all of a very large circumference the lowermost of those fifteen Steps being twenty eight yards round On the right side of the foresaid Steps upon the Terras-walk there is a large Stone-Statue with a Hart behind it and on the left such another great Statue both lying or leaning on a distinct Basis and both holding under one Arm a Stone-vessel These two Statues and intended to represent two great Rivers the Rhine and the Issel between the which Rivers the Veluwe and Loo are situate Out of those Stone-vessels there runs Water which makes an unexpected Cascade on both sides of the Steps adjoining to the Wall. These Cascades are made from the said Stone-vessels on each side into seven double Basins one below another besides an eighth large single Basin which receives the Water of all the rest at the bottom of the Steps All these Basins are of a blew Stone The one half of these double Basins is raised two or three Inches in order to retain the Water and the other half is equally sunk or made lower that the sheet of Water may fall from the upper into the lower Basins From all the three Terras-walks there is a Green slope reaching from those Walks above unto a low Brick-wall below that is only two foot high at the four corners of these Slopes in this Garden there are broad Steps for descending from the Walks above And at the upper part of the Green Slopes there are abundance of little Pipes of water about a foot distance one from the other Each of them hath a Copper head wherein there are four small holes through which the water is made to play in order to water the Slopes and to preserve them always Green. In the Summer Evenings they are made frequently to rain a small shower for the end aforcsaid In the low Walk below the Green Slopes at every four yards distance there are white Stones each of them above a foot and a half square on every one of which there are Urns and noble Flowerpots placed or to be placed as on Bases And some of them have representations of divers Ancient and Modern Curiosities carved upon them And all along the Wall of the Lower Garden whither that which separates the first Terras Walk from the King 's and Queen's Garden or those that separate the higher Terras-walks from the two Wildernesses those Walls have such white square Stones near about the same distance from one another and for the same purpose On the top of the said green Slopes there do grow many Pyramidal Juniper-trees with other curious Shrubs intermixed among them The Slope from the first Terras-walk to the low Walk at bottom is about eleven foot but the Slopes from the side Terras-walks to the said low Wall have a descent of about fifteen foot these being raised higher than the former Walk on the account of the Cascades before-mentioned When we have descended into the Garden by the foresaid eighteen Stone-steps we do enter upon a broad Gravel Walk into which advancing forty sive paces from the Steps we come to a Noble Fountain in the middle of whose Basin is a Marble Statue of Venus at full length and another of Cupid under her left hand he holding a gilded Bow. This Statue is supported on a small Whale for its Pedestal with four great gilded Tritons behow it a large gilded Shell being between each of the Tritons and each Triton blowing in a large Trumpet in one hand their other hand being dispofed in different postures At the end of each Trumpet the water runs out in a broad sheer incircling a great part of the broad end of the Trumpet Also about the Tritons there are many gilded
a round Gravel Walk above four yards broad Going ten Paces forwards beyond the former Cascade we come to another where the Water falls from Three Stone Basins one below another whereof the uppermost is about three foot in front that in the middle four foot and a half and the lowermost five foot besides a farther extension of these Basins on both sides for the making of lesser Sheets of Water of eleven inches each in front which are likewise one below another in three descents Here is also an ascent of five stone steps on both sides of the Water with four Bases at the four Corners of those Steps for the placing of Flower-pots So soon as we are up these Steps we do presently turn on the right and left of the Walk into Semicircular Galleries or Porticoes below which there are two Green Slopes one below the other and between those Slopes there are Flower-pots disposed the whole length of them Each of these Galleries is forty paces long and about six yards broad and each of them is supported by twenty Pillars They are covered with Lead to shelter from the Rain and have White Ballisters four foot high upon the Leads to which there is an ascent by Stairs behind the Galleries On the Wall within the Galleries there are drawn the Gods and Goddesses at length in Fresco thirteen of them in each Gallery They are paved with White and Red Brick At the farther end of them there is a descent of seven Steps into the Garden Beyond these Galleries the former Walk â—ontinues between Kitchen Gardens on our right and left but we cannot see them by reason of a Hedge of Dutch Elm five yards high At the farther end of this Walk Northwards we come to another Cascade and Fountain The Cascade is from one plain long Basin about eight foot in front On both sides of it we do ascend by three Stone Steps that are five yards in length unto another Fountain that has no Spout in it The Basin of it is oval and but seven foot in length On both sides of this Fountain there are Seats covered above painted behind in Fresco and paved below with white Marble The open space about this Fountain and between the Seats is paved with a Black White and Yellowish Pebble set in divers Figures And here going up two Stone-steps more that are extended the whole breadth of the Walk we are stopt from going farther by large Iron Balusters and a Canal beyond them In the Canal below there is another Fountain in the midst of Gardans made of Shells Petrified Earths or spungy Stones from the top of which the water does fall on three rows or Garlands of the same substances placed one below another Lastly on both sides of this Fountain there are other Falls of water to be seen below Nor is our view here limited though our passage be for looking on still forwards we carry our prospect between Trees unto a high Pyramid erected in the Heath about half a mile's distance from the end of the Garden In this Second Division of the Garden there are twelve Parterres with Gravel-walks between them all The six inmost Quarters adjoining three of a side to the middle Broad-walk through which we passed do consist divers Figures in green encompassed with Beds of Flowers in the which there are divers Juniper Trees growing up Pyramidal about green round Staves and placed at convenient distances The six outermost of these Quarters next to the Garden-wall on both sides are all plain green From the low Wall at the bottom of the first Terras-walk unto the Stone Rails or Steps in the Lower Garden on the South-side of the middle Cross-walk it is about a hundred and twelve Paces And from the Steps of the side Terras-walk on the right unto the opposite Steps of the other Terras-walk on the left it is two hundred and twenty Paces Beyond the aforesaid Cross-walk from thence unto the Galleries it is a hundred and forty Paces and thence to the Iron Bars at the farther end about a hundred Paces more CHAP. IV Of the King's Garden and another Westward of it called the Labyrinth ON the West-side of the Palace under His Majesty's Apartments there is a Garden called the King's Garden which consists of two Divisions The one has three Parterres and a Fountain near the middle of them The other is a large Bowling-green The three Parterres do consist of Beds of Flowers bordered with Box in divers figures with Pyramids of Juniper or Box in many parts of them The Fountain is bordered with white Marble thirteen Inches broad In the middle of this Fountain there is a gilded Triton holding under his left Arm a gilded Dolphin out of whose Mouth springs a Jette that throws up the water about six foot high On the border of this Fountain there are placed at convenient distances eight gilded Sea-Dragons every one spirting the water upon the Triton in the middle The Bowling-green lies on the South-side of this Garden and has the King's Stables adjoining on two sides of it At the West-end of the Gravel-walk that is between the King's Garden and the Bowling-green we do pass through a Gate of Iron Rails partly gilded and partly painted Blew into another Garden called the Labyrinth or Wilderness When we have here cross'd a Gravel-walk a Hedge and a Green-walk we come to an ascent of three Stone-steps on both sides of which there is a Stone Fabrick with Ballisters in the middle and four wrought Flowerpots covered one on each side of the Ballisters From the Stone-work on each side of the Steps the water falls from three Marble Heads into a common Basin bordered and walled with Stone in each of these Basins there are two Spouts which do throw up the water six foot high Advancing Westward from the said Steps about thinty six Paces we come to a Fountain in the middle of which there are four Sea-Cupids in Stone sitting on four Dolphins Between the Cupids there rises a Spout out a Serpent's Head that throws up the water about five foot and out of every nostril of the four Dolphins there do run other little Spouts The Border of the Basin of this Fountain is a raised Stone-work and it is paved with white Pebbles but towards the Angles the Basin being octangular there are Figures of large Flowerdeluces in a dark Pebble At this Fountain there are eight several Walks to be Teen between Hedges of an equal heighth all the Hedges being between seven and eight foot high Of these eight Walks four are Green and the four others are of Earch without Turf and ungravelled The Green Walks are placed between the others At the end of all these Walks there are to be seen Statues or Paintings and Westward from the Fountain besides a large piece of Painting there is a Fountain with two Spouts and a fall of water out of a Head placed below the Painting North and South from this Foutain at forty Paces
a rough Grotesco manner and in one corner of this Grotto there is a Aviary The Room for the Grotto is paved with Black and White Marble there being two Fountains in it over-against one another and they are raised Arch-wise from the bottom to the top of the Room the border round the Fountains being raised above a foot from the floor in order to hinder the water from wetting the Room The sides are embellished with divers sorts of Shells and all parts of the Windows beautisied with the same in divers Figures There are three Gates or Passages into this Room one from the Queen's Garden another from the Great Garden under the Terras-walk the third goes into a little Room where a Couch is placed for Repose and thence we go into another Room adorned all over with abundance of Porcelaine or China The Aviary is exposed to the open Air but incompassed with a small Grate to confine the Birds and there is a place in the corner of the Grotto for the Birds to retreat into from the Rain or Weather On the Eastside of the Queen's Garden there is another Garden for retirement with Walks and Hedges of Witch-Elm about eight foot high into which we do pass out of the former through a Gate of wrought Iron painted Blew and Gilt. Turning in it Northwards in the second Walk we come to a Noble Fountain unto which we descend by six Stops but in the middle of these Steps there is a small fall of water in six descents from a Fountain at the top of the Step and from thence the water runs in a small channel cross the Walk that encompasses the Fountain which I am going to describe This Fountain is oblong or of an Oval figure its diameter is in length twenty Paces and it is about ten Paces wide In the middle of this Basin there is a round Rock of rough Stones Shells and Forgecinders about a yard above the water Out of this Rockwork there springs a Jette about five yards high from the middle of it and from the other parts round about this Rock there do rise abundance of other Spouts This Fountain is bordered with green Turf on the Slope of which Border there are placed at due distances six collopt Shells of wrought Stone Into all these Shells there is a fall of water from the mouth of a wrought Head joined to the Shell in one and the same Stone and from four parts of each Shell the water falls into the Basin of the Fountain which is not paved at all the Bottom being only of Earth as the Border of it and the Slope were of Turf Round this Fountain next to the Hedge and directly behind the foresaid six Shells there are six Statues in Stone or so many little Cupids standing upon high Pedestals of wrought Stone and at the bottom of each Pedestal there is a fall of water into a small square Stone-basin from whence the water runs under the Walk into one of the Heads and Shells that were before mentioned to be placed on the Slope below the Border The first of these Cupids is drinking out of a Stone-cup held in one hand and has a bunch of Grapes in the other The second holds a Tulip in his Right hand The third is reading in a Book through a pair of Spectacles held near the Book The fourth has a Play-thing in his hand The fifth has a Snake which he squeezes hard in his Arms. And the sixth leans upon a Spade Also round about this Fountain there are placed fifty Orange-trees in Frames Going still Northwards about thirty Paces from this Fountain we come at the end of this Walk to a Statue of Venus at length a little stooping and holding Cupid by both hands The Venus is placed on a Stone Pedestal and out of a wrought Head at the bottom of the Pedestal there is a fall of water into a small Stone-basin A little Eastward of this Statue of Venus there is another Fountain in a square Stone-basin In the middle of it there is a small fall of water from a round Stone-basin whence the water does fall equally all round in one sheet And besides another Cascade that is here made out of a Head into a large Basin there are five other falls of water from out of the Walls of this Fountain each of them about a foot in breadth CHAP. VI Of the Voliere or Fowl-Garden AT the west-West-end of the Middle Walk that divides the Great Garden into two Parts we pass through a Gate of wrought Iron into a Walk between high Trees that goes Southward into the first Labyrinth described in the Fourth Chapter and Northwards as far as the Heath that is beyond all the Gardens At this Garden-gate we behold the Old Hoof directly before us Westward but are separated from it by two Moats between which there are five rows of Lime-trees on the South of which the Labyrinth is seated and on the North the Fowl Garden that is now to be described Advancing from the foresaid Gate fifty paces Northwards we turn to the Gate of the Fowl Garden on our left to which we pass on a Bridge over the Moat This Gate is likewise of wrought Iron painted Blew and Gilt. Going from this Gate two and twenty paces we descend by three Steps to a Noble Fountain and Cascade round which Fountain from the bottom of the Steps to the Border of its Basin there is a Walk twelve foot and a half broad into which Walk there are four descents by three Steps four opposite ways And between the one and the other row of Steps there is a Green Slope round the Fountain The Basin of this Fountain is oblong or oval and of a great circumference the Diameter at least forty paces in length and about twenty four paces in breadth It is designed for the use of divers sorts of Fowl and there are Houses built on the two sides of this Garden for sheltering the Fowl. In the middle of this Fountain there is a Jette that throws up the water about twenty foot and below the Jette there is a triple Cascade made from three round Basins whereof the uppermost appears to make a sheet about a foot in depth the middle-one near about two foot and the lowermost four foot Between these three Basins the spaces or intervals are filled all round with Shells c. the which Shells are seen round them through the Sheets of water that fall from the said Basins On the North and South-side of this Fountain six yards from one of the descents by three Steps there are two Summer Houses the one opposite to the other They are within painted in fresco and bronze and have Cupola's over them painted Blew and Gilded Into these Houses we enter by folding Doors which consist of two foot Wainscot from the bottom the rest in broad Glass up to the Cupola Each of these Houses hath four Shash-windows besides the Doors and hath on each side of
them contiguous to the middlemost and largest Windows an Aviary wherein are kept curious Foreign or Singing Birds When the Shash-windows next to the Aviaries are opened there is still a Wire-grate remaining to hinder the Birds from flying out of their Aviaries into the Summer-houses These Houses are paved with white and red Marble cut into curious Figures but they are bordered all round with black Marble of half a foot breadth over which Border there is also a Ledge of white Marble between the black and the Wainscot The Aviaries that adjoin to Summer-houses are likewise covered with lesser Cupola's of Lead painted Blew and gilded but large Cupola in the middle has a round Glas-window and another little Cupola above the Window and on the top of the highest Cupola in each House there is a Gilded Pine-apple placed on a Gilded Basis These Aviaries have on three sides Grates of Wire which do reach from the Cupola above to a Stone-wall about two foot high at bottom The two outmost Side-grates have wooden Shutters without them and those Shutters an oval Glass-window in them towards the top In the middle of the Aviaries there is a Jette whose water falls into a little shallow leaden Basin near a yard square Behind these Aviaries there are other lesser ones open above and on one side for the receiving some particular Birds that must be more in the open Air or that must be kept alone by themselves And besides these Aviaries there are in two corners of this Garden on the Northwest and Southeast two other Houses in three divisions for Ducks Pigeons Poultrey c. with holes on both sides at the bottom for the Fowl to enter The middle part of these Houses is now used for tame Pigeons and has a large Wire-grate towards the Air and a Spout in the middle that falls into a shallow round Leaden Basin of about two foot diameter Round the uppermost Walk that encompasses this Fountain there are high Stakes joined together five yards above this Walk being a prop for the Hedges to grow on that are now of that heigth according to the manner that is frequently used in the Low Countries In four places of this Hedge there are also semicircular Arbors of the height of the Hedge with Seats at convenient distances from the Summer-houses Between this Hedge and the Wall of this Garden there are some plain Parterres bordered with Box and in other places Ever-Greens set here and here CHAP. VII Of the Park and its Fountains Long Canal Cascade c. together with the Viver that supplies the Fountains and Cascades with water as also a description of six other Vivers or Fish-ponds THE Park is a great space of Ground containing many Long Green Walks Groves Nurseries Fountains Canals Cascades the Viver and divers Corn-fields within the Pales So that when His Majesty is pleased to take diversion at home there is not wanting Game for Shooting Setting c. As we go from the Fowl-Garden Westwards we do leave the Old Hoof on the the left hand and at the West-end of this Garden we come to a large Wire-grate of the bigness of a large Gate on both sides of which Grate we pass through Doors into the Park and first to a Long Canal in the which there are no less than a hundred and eight Spouts half on one side and the other half on t'other side of the Canal They throw the water above four foot high and the water of every Spout is made to fall on the contrary side of the Canal This Canal is about six foot broad and the distance between every one of the Spouts is five foot so as that between every two on the same side there are ten foot distance At the beginning and end of the Canal there are placed two Spouts falling the one upon the place of the other but all the rest do fall on the contrary side and distant from the opposite Spouts the whole length of the Canal All these Spouts do fall into the figure of an Arch. This Canal reaches from the Gate of the Fowl-Garden already described unto a Great Cascade that will be presently mentioned it has Hedges on each side five yards high and on the farther side of the Hedge South of the Canal has a stately Grove of tall Trees and Northwards of it has all along a Nursery of young ones About half way the Walk on each side between the Hedge and the Border of the Canal is about five foot broad but the other half way next the Cascade the Walk is widened unto fifteen foot on both sides The Canal is Bordered with Green Turf and has a Slope of the same from the Border down to the water About the middle of this Canal on the South-side there is placed a Marble Statue of a Flora at length on a high Stone Pedestal and on each side of the Flora there is also a Head the which Statue and Heads are seen as at the end of a long Green Walk North of the Canal the which Walk is a hundred and seventy paces to go from the Canal unto the Fountain of Faunus that will soon be described At the West-end of this Long Canal we come to a most Noble Fabrick of wrought Stone or to the Cascade of the Fishers sometimes also called the Cypher Fountain It is joined to the side of one of the Walks about the Viver it has Ballisters at the top of the Fabrick and joining to the Walk above and there are covered Flowerpots upon the Ballisters On each side of this Cascade there are two several ascents by Stone-steps And first we come to four Steps on the corners of which there are placed two little Dragons out of whose mouths the water falls into two scollopt Stone Basins at the bottom under the Dragons From these four Steps on both sides we cross over other Canals by a Stone-bridge and then come to eleven Stone-steps more These Canals do serve to carry away good part of the water that makes this Cascade and the rest of it runs into the Long Canal just now described In the middle of this Cascade below the Ballisters there are four little Boys a fishing and drawing a Nett full of Fish the four little Boys are of Stone with leaden Net-work coloured like Stone in their Arms and through a great deal of this Net-work placed between the Boys the water falls into the a large wrought Basin and from this Basin the water falls again in five several places between other Net-work Two of these falls of water from the said Basin are made into a Stone Canal below that runs along the side of the Wall under the Stone Bridges into the Canals on the North and South sides of the Cascade The three other falls are thence made first upon Rockwork and from thence into a common or general Basin that receives the water aforesaid besides what comes from the Spouts and Bell that will be presently mentioned Moreover