The pond would also be useful to preserve small fish and crabs for use.

We next proceeded to our embankment.

This was intended to protect the garden from any extraordinary overflow of the river, and from the water running from the rocks after heavy rains.
We then laid out our garden on the same plan as before, except that I made the walks wider, and not so flat; I carried one directly to our house, which, in the autumn, I intended to plant with shrubs, that my wife might have a shady avenue to approach her garden; where I also planned an arbour, furnished with seats, as a resting-place for her.

The rocks were covered with numerous climbing plants, bearing every variety of elegant flower, and I had only to make my selection.
All this work, with the enclosing the garden with palisades of bamboo, occupied us about a fortnight, in which time our invalids made great progress towards their recovery.

After the whole was finished, Francis entreated me to begin his gallery.