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LETTER IX - Count de Roseville to the Baron

from VOL II - Adelaide and Theodore, or Letters on Education

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At last, my dear Baron, I am going go give you the promised description of the Chevalier de Murville's gardens, which my occupations during the last three months have hitherto prevented; – You will not lose by the delay, it being all present to my memory. Three weeks before Mons. d' Aimeri’ s departure I took the prince, accompanied by the Chevalier de Valmont, to Mons. de Murville’ s, who you will easily believe did not receive the nephew of Cecilia without manifest emotion. After surveying the house, Mons. M— conducted us into the garden, where he has collected an exact representation of all the most interesting things he has seen in his travels. We went out of the house on to a large irregular lawn, formerly an immense parterre, but now filled with status and antique monuments faithfully copied, (but in less proportion) from the best ruins in Italy. Amongst others the magnificent temples of Seraphis, of Minerva Medica, Trojan's pillar, &c. Various foreign plants of different shapes and colours are artfully interspersed among the ruins. Willows and cyprus shade the tombs; majestic pines and palm-trees surround the temples; laurels grow at the foot of the Apollo of Belvedere; myrtles and roses encompass the Venus of Medicis. To the right of this kind of museum, there is the grotto of Pausilipo; which is a long passage built with brick, but so covered with rock and verdure, that it appears hewn out of the solid stone, like the cavern it represents. – At the bottom of this grotto, one discovers a charming perspective, which conducts you to the lake of Agnano, one of the most delightful views near Naples; and very easily imitated in a garden, being entirely surrounded by trees, which hide the rest of the country. On the other side of the park, you travel in Spain.

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Adelaide and Theodore
by Stephanie-Felicite De Genlis
, pp. 206 - 208
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
First published in: 2014

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