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

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clear running water, which falls in rills from the tides os
a rock in the center : many little inlands ssoat upon its
surface, and move around as the current directs; some
of them covered with tables for the banquet; others with
seats for musscians; and others witharbors, containing
beds of repose, with sopbas, seats, and other furniture,
for various uses.
To these Halls of the Moon the Chinese princes retire,
with their favourite women, whenever the heat and intense
light of the su miner’s day becomes dilagre'eable to them;
and here they feast, and give a loose to every sort of
voluptuous pleasure.
No nation ever equalled the Chinese in the splendor
and number os their Garden flructures. We are told,
by Father Attiret, that, in one of the Imperial Gardens
near Pekin, called Yven Ming Yven, there are, bessdes
the palace, which is os itself a city, four hundred
pavilions; all so disserent in their architecture, that
each seems the production os a different country. He
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