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JOHN EVELYN
cabinet, where was a neate invention for reflecting
lights by lining divers sconces with thin shining plates
of gilded copper.
Having seene the roomes (at Fontainebleau) we
went to the Volary, which has a cupola in the middle
of it, greate trees and bushes, it being full of birds who
drank at two fountaines. There is a faire Tennis
Court & noble Stables; but the beauty of all are the
Gardens. In the Court of the Fountaines stand
divers antiquities and statues, especialy a Mercury. In
the Queenes Garden is a Diana ejecting a fountaine,
with numerous other brasse statues.
The Greate Garden, 180 toises long and 154 wide,
has in the centre a fountayne of Tyber of a Colossean
figure of brasse, with the Wolfe over Romulus &
Rhemus. At each corner of the garden rises a foun-
taine. In the Garden of the Fishpond is a Hercules
of white marble. Next is the Garden of the Pines,
and without that a Canale of an English mile in length,
at the end of which rise 3 jettos in the form of a fleur
de lys, of a great height; on the margin are excellent
walkes planted with trees. The carps come familiarly
to hand [jto be fedj. Hence they brought us to a
JOHN EVELYN
cabinet, where was a neate invention for reflecting
lights by lining divers sconces with thin shining plates
of gilded copper.
Having seene the roomes (at Fontainebleau) we
went to the Volary, which has a cupola in the middle
of it, greate trees and bushes, it being full of birds who
drank at two fountaines. There is a faire Tennis
Court & noble Stables; but the beauty of all are the
Gardens. In the Court of the Fountaines stand
divers antiquities and statues, especialy a Mercury. In
the Queenes Garden is a Diana ejecting a fountaine,
with numerous other brasse statues.
The Greate Garden, 180 toises long and 154 wide,
has in the centre a fountayne of Tyber of a Colossean
figure of brasse, with the Wolfe over Romulus &
Rhemus. At each corner of the garden rises a foun-
taine. In the Garden of the Fishpond is a Hercules
of white marble. Next is the Garden of the Pines,
and without that a Canale of an English mile in length,
at the end of which rise 3 jettos in the form of a fleur
de lys, of a great height; on the margin are excellent
walkes planted with trees. The carps come familiarly
to hand [jto be fedj. Hence they brought us to a