The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 221
cated in the shaded part o^ Jig.24;. The fountains are circular basins, with candelabra in thecentre, from which the water falls ; and these candelabra aresurrounded by inrmersed figures with their heads above water,from trumpets or other objects held by which water is spoutedup into the lower… … Fig. 24. Summit of the Obeliskof Luxor. fountain in the centre of the Place de laBibliotheque appeared to us in bettertaste, though not so abundantly suppliedwith water. There are five or six noblefountains now erecting in the ChampsElysees ; and, as these and all the othershave an unlimited supply…