The fountains are of various devices, and though old, some of them were still capable of being put in action.

Frogs and lizards placed at the edgings of the walks, and spouting water to the risk of passengers, were not quite so agreeable; and other figures were still in worse taste.
"There is a long berceau walk of beech, with numerous windows or openings in the leafy side wall, and many statues and busts, chiefly of Italian marble, some of them of exquisite workmanship.

Several large urns and vases certainly do honour to the sculptor.

The subjects of the bas-relief ornaments are the histories of Saul and David, and of Esther and Ahasuerus." I saw no old Dutch garden in Holland which seemed to me so attractive as that at Levens in Westmorland.
It is important at Haarlem to take a drive over the dunes--the billowy, grassy sand hills which stretch between the city and the sea.

If it is in April one can begin the drive by passing among every variety of tulip and hyacinth, through air made sweet and heavy by these flowers.