Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co. · leaf 272
in the middle of this screen, and on either side are wide semi-circular recesses. The wall is decorated with pilasters and entablature,enclosing niches, statues, busts, and panels of stucco-work, and terminatesabove the cornice in segmental pediments and slim obelisks. The wholesurface is encrusted… … either end, and a double stair ascends from this to the foot of thecascade. From this point a grand avenue of cypresses leads upwards to a statueof Hercules placed within a grotto. Whether at any time there was acascade here, in the ordinary sense of the word, is open to question, thewater-supply…
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