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48 TRAVELS —
hundred and feventy gentlemen may be conveniently lodged.
‘The princes and princeffes have cach feparate pavilions, "The fide
of the palace fronting the lake has a flight of fteps, with a balu-
ftrade, which is ornamented with iron flower-pots. On a kind
of platform, between the fteps and the caftle, ftand two {mall
ftatues in bronze; and another of the fame compofition is placed
between the fteps and the lake, reprefenting Neptune. On the
ftair-cafe are two lions of marble holding {cutcheons, and {everal
other marble ftatues. On the oppofite fide of the palace, parallel
to the whole length of the building, is a terrace adorned with a
baluftrade, and two brazen ftatues. In the midft of a grafs-plot,
or bowling-green, on which a few yew-trees are planted, is a large
bafin of water, with a Hercules deftroying the hydra: there are,
befides this, feveral pieces of water of {mall fize, and a number of
figures in bronze are arranged around thofe bafins. At each end
of the terrace is an iron gate, over one of which are two lions in
bronze, and over the other two horfes. Defcending from the ter-
race, you fee four large vafes and four ftatues of the fame metal.
All the works in bronze which you obferve here, were taken at
Prague in the thirty years war. On one of the vafes you perceive
the cypher of the Emperor Ferdinand II. They are, for the moft
part, in the ftyle of the Florentine fchool, in which the German
artifts ufed at that time chiefly to ftudy. The walks in the garden
are well laid out, but in a fafhion that approaches too much the
ftitfnefs of ftudied regularity. One quarter of it, called Canton, is an
imitation of the Chinefe manner. Here is erected a large pavilion
amidft
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