Chambers, William: A Dissertation On Oriental Gardening (London: Griffin [u.a.], 1773)

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Besides the different strudures already mentioned,
they have home built in large trees, and disposed amongsl
the branches like nests of birds, being finished on the
inside with many beautiful ornaments and pictures,
composed of feathers ; some they have likewise made in
the form of Persian tents; others built of roots and
pollards, put together with great taste; and others,
which are called Miau Ting, or Halls of the Moon,
being of a prodigious size, and composed each of one
single vaulted room, made in the shape of a hemisphere;
the concave of which is artfully painted, in imitation of
a nodurnal iky, and pierced with an infinite number os
little windows, made to represent the moon and stars,
being filled with tinged glass, that admits the light in
the quantities necesiary to spread over the whole interior
fabric the pleasing gloom os a fine summer’s night.

The pavements os thefe rooms are sometimes laid out
in parterres of ssowers; amongst which are placed many
rural seats, made of fine formed branches, varnished red
to represent coral : but oftenest their bottom is full of a
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