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392 SWEDENBORG’S PRIVATE PROPERTY. [Doc. 140.
of panel work and bricks, and is covered on the outside with
boards which are painted yellow.
6. On the larger western division of the property, which
we style above the large garden, there are several buildings:
first, there is a square house in the middle, which has open
ings towards the four paths of the garden, which meet here;
the walls are made of wood, in wicker-work, with a flat roof,
likewise of wicker-work, going all round and forming a pretty
balcony ; there is a round seat in each corner. Secondly,
right along the northern board -fence is a house with three
sides, and three double doors opening into the garden, it
has a pointed roof, with three large three- cornered windows
in it. This house is so arranged that when all the three
doors are opened, and a mirror is placed in front of the
fourth wall, which is along the board -fence, three gardens
are seen reflected in it, in which every thing is represented
in the same order as in the original garden. Thirdly, on the
southern side, right opposite the last building, there is a
many -sided bower, usually called a volière, which is intended
for all kinds of larger and smaller birds; the walls are of
net-work, and made of coarse brass wire. Fourthly, in the
middle, directly opposite the large walk, there is a pretty
summer-house, consisting of a hall, inside from which there
is a little room, whence there is a passage into a library,
which, fifthly, is a lower house with a neat room, extending
towards the south from the above-named summer -house.
This last house, viz. the summer -house, has a good covering
of planks on the outside, painted yellow, and in the interior
it is hung with pretty tapestry. Sixthly, between the library
- and the board-fence on the south there is a Dutch structure
: like a vaulted cellar, but covered with earth, which is for
the purpose of keeping vegetables. Seventhly, in front of this
cavern there is a maze, built of boards, which is so contrived
that if any one unacquainted with it goes in, he cannot find
the entrance again without help.
7. Under the summer-house, No. 5, in the large garden,
is a new vaulted cellar, and under the dwelling-house the
foundation is laid for building a stone house.
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