An essay on design in gardening / first published in 1768. Now greatly augmented. Also a revisal of several later publications on the same subject. By George Mason.

  • George Mason
Date:
1795
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Credit: An essay on design in gardening / first published in 1768. Now greatly augmented. Also a revisal of several later publications on the same subject. By George Mason. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ circumference*. One exuberant foun- “ tain watered the whole plantation. The “ mount Bagiftan, on the fide next the “ paradife, riles with craggy cliffs to the “ height of 17 ftadia. Having decamped “ from hence, when fhe came to Chanon a “ city of Media, ihe obferved (on an elc- “ vated plain) a rock of ftupendous height “ and confiderable extent. Here fhe form- “ ed another paradife, exceeding large, en- “ clofing the rock in the midft of it; on “ which ihe erected fumptuous buildings for “ pleafure, commanding a view both of the “ plantations and of the encampmenth-”] All * As a ftadium is 6do feet, the paradife might contain about 70 acres. [f Mr. Bryant, in his Analyfis of Ancient Mythology, vol. 2. p. 100. &c. (the publication of which was fome years fubfequent to the hrft appearance of this effay) gives his rea- fons for ditbelieving the very exiftence ofaSEMiRAMis; and with great penetration has accounted for her fuppofed a£ts, including her paradifes; which in p. 303, he attributes to a people called Semarim—ancient Babylonians. By leaving the