In the second division are
two groves or woods, cutt with divers walkes, and through those groves
passeth the river Nader, having of breadth in this place 44 foote,
upon which is built the bridge, of the breadth of the great walke: and
in the middest of the aforesayd groves are two great statues of white
marble of eight foot high, the one of Bacchus, and the other of Flora;
and on the sides ranging with the platts of flowers are two covered
arbours of three hundred foot long, and divers allies. At the
beginning of the third and last division are, on either side of the
great walke, two ponds with fountains, and two columnes in the middle,
casting water all their height; which causeth the moving and turning
of two crowns at the top of the same; and beyond is a compartment of
green, with divers walkes planted with cherrie trees; and in the
middle is the great ovall, with the Gladiator of brasse, the most
famous statue of all that antiquity hath left. On the sides of this
compartment, and answering the platts of flowers and long arbours, are
three arbours of either side, with turning galleries, communicating
themselves one into another. At the end of the great walke is a
portico of stone, cutt and adorned with pyllasters and nyckes, within
which are figures of white marble, of five foot high. On either side
of the said portico is an ascent leading up to the terrasse, upon the
steps whereof, instead of ballasters, are sea-monsters, casting water
from one to the other, from the top to the bottome; and above the sayd
portico is a great reserve of water for the grotto.
Pages:
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207