adorn the country, and to nourish its induftrious inhabitants.

On entering the garden from the palace, and turning towards the left hand, the first building which appears is

THE ORANGERY, OR GREEN-HOUSE.

The defign is mine, and it was built under my infpection in the year 1761. The front extends one hundred and forty five feet; the room is one hundred and forty two feet long, thirty feet wide, and twenty five high. In the back shed are two furnaces to heat flues, laid under the pavement of the orangery; which are found very useful, and indeed very neceflary in times of hard froft. What is called

THE TEMPLE OF THE SUN,

Is fituated in an open grove near the orangery, and in the way to the phyfic garden. Its figure is of the circular peripteros kind, but without an attic; and there is a particularity in the entablature, of which the hint is taken from one of the temples of Balbec. The order is Corinthian, the columns fluted, and the entablature fully enriched. Over each column on the frize are baffo relievos, representing lyres and sprigs of laurel; and round the upper part of the cell are fufpended

feftoons

feftoons of fruits and flowers.

The infide of the

cell forms a falon richly finished and gilt. In the center of its cove is reprefented the fun, and on the frize, in twelve compartments, furrounded with branches of laurel, are reprefented the figns of the zodiac in baffo relievo. This building was begun and finished under my inspection in the year 1761.

THE PHYSIC OR EXOTIC GARDEN

Was not begun before the year 1760; fo that it cannot poffibly be yet in its perfection: but, from the great botanical learning of him who is the principal manager, and the affiduity with which all curious productions are collected from every part of the globe, without any regard to expence, it may be concluded that, in a few years, this will be the ampleft and beft collection of curious plants, in Europe. For the cultivation of thefe plants I have built feveral ftoves; and amongst others a very large one, its extent from eaft to weft being one hundred and fourteen foot; the center is occupied by a bark-ftove fixty foot long, twenty foot wide, and twenty foot high, exclufive of the tan-pit; and the two ends form two dry ftoves, each twenty-five foot long, eighteen foot wide, and twenty foot high.

The dry ftoves are furnifhed with ftands for placing pots on, made in the form of ops.

They have each three revolutions of flues in the back-wall; and one of them hath likewife a flue under the pavement.

The bark ftove in the center is heated by four furnaces: two of these ferve to warm the Aues under the pavement, and two to warm thofe in the back-wall, of which there are five revolutions. The flues are all of them nine inches wide, and two foot high. Thofe, in the backwall are divided from the houfe by a brick-onedge wall, and feparated from each other by foottiles. Between fome of them are placed air-pipes, for the introduction of fresh air, which by that means is warmed in its paffage, and becomes very beneficial to the plants. The tan-pit is ten foot wide, and three foot fix inches deep. It is furrounded on three fides by flues, being feparated from them by a fourteen inch wall. The walks are three foot wide, paved with foot-tiles; and there is a border before the back flues twenty inches wide, with a treillage for creepers, placed within fix inches of the flues. The roof-lights are divided into three heights, and run on cafters; fo that they are moved up and down with great ease; from a boarded paffage placed over the flues, between the treillage and the back-wall. The front lights flide in grooves. On the outside of the barkftove, in front, there is a border covered with glass for bulbous roots, which, by the affiftance

of

of the flues under the pavement of the stove, flourish very early in the year. Contiguous to the exotic garden is

THE FLOWER GARDEN,

Of which the principal entrance, with a ftand on each fide of it for rare flowers, forms one end. The two fides are enclosed with high trees, and the end facing the principal entrance is occupied by an aviary of a vast depth, in which is kept a numerous collection of birds, both foreign and domeftic. The parterre is divided, by walks, into a great number of beds, in which all kinds of beautiful flowers are to be feen, during the greatest part of the year; and in its center is a bafon of water ftocked with gold-fifh.

From the flower-garden a short winding walk leads to

THE MENAGERIE.

It is of an oval figure: the center is occupied by a large bafon of water, furrounded by a walk; and the whole is enclosed by a range of pens, or large cages, in which are kept great numbers of Chinese and Tartarian pheasants, befides many forts of other large exotic birds. The bafon is ftocked with fuch water-fowl as are too tender to Jive on the lake; and in the middle of it ftands a pavilion

F 4

pavilion of an irregular octagon plan, defigned by me in imitation of a Chinese opening, and executed in the year 1760.

Near the Menagerie ftands

THE TEMPLE OF BELLONA.

Designed and built by me in the year 1760. It is of the proftyle kind; the portico tetraftyle Doric; the metopes alternately enriched with helmets, and daggers; and vafes, and pateras. The cell is rectangular, and of a fefquialteral proportion; but closed with an ellyptical dome, from which it receives the light.

Paffing from the menagerie towards the lake, in a retired folitary walk on the left, is,

THE TEMPLE OF THE GOD PAN,

Of the monopteros kind; but clofed on the fide towards the thicket, in order to make it ferve for a feat. It is of the Doric order; the profile imitated from that of the theatre of Marcellus at Rome, and the metopes enriched with ox-fculls and pateras. It was built by me in the year 1758.

Not far from the laft defcribed temple, on an eminence, ftands

THE