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

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Their surprizing, or fupernatural scenes, are of the
romantic kind, and abound in the marvellous; being
calculated to excite in the mind of the spe&ator, quick
successions of opposite and violent sensations. Sometimes
the pasienger is hurried by steep deseending paths to
subterraneous vaults, divided into stately apartments,
where lamps, which yield a saint and glimmering light,
diseover the pale images of antient kings and heroes,
reclining on beds of flate; their heads are crowned with
garlands of flats, and in their hands are tablets of moral
sentences: ssutes, and soft harmonious organs, impelled
by subterraneous waters, interrupt, at flated intervals,
the silence of the place, and fill the air with solemn
sacrcd melody.
Sometimes the traveller, after having wandered in the
dusk of the forest, sinds himself on the edge of precipices,
in the glare os day-light, with cataracts falling from the
mountains around, and torrents raging in the depths
beneath him ; or at the foot of impending rocks, in
gloomy vallies, overhung with woods: or on the banks of
dull