. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. Fig. 82.—Maze at Charleval. (After Du Cerceau.). Figs. 83 and 84.—Mazes at Gaillon. (After Du Cerceau.) jet deau in the centre. At the end was a small mountcalled the Mount of Venus, placed in the midst of a laby-rinth, upon the whole, one of the most beautiful spotsin the world. The house and gardens, John Evelyn tellsus in his Memoirs, under date April 15, 1643, weredemolished by the A plan of this labyrinth is shown in Fig. 8 5. Theo-balds was afterwards transferred by Burleighs son, theEarl of Salisbury
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. Fig. 82.—Maze at Charleval. (After Du Cerceau.). Figs. 83 and 84.—Mazes at Gaillon. (After Du Cerceau.) jet deau in the centre. At the end was a small mountcalled the Mount of Venus, placed in the midst of a laby-rinth, upon the whole, one of the most beautiful spotsin the world. The house and gardens, John Evelyn tellsus in his Memoirs, under date April 15, 1643, weredemolished by the A plan of this labyrinth is shown in Fig. 8 5. Theo-balds was afterwards transferred by Burleighs son, theEarl of Salisbury, to King James the First, in exchangefor another noble seat in the same county, HatfieldHouse, still held by the present Marquis of Salisbury. In the grounds to the rear of the latter mansion is tobe seen at the present day one of the finest examples of c Fig. 85.—Maze at Theobalds, Herts. (After Trollope.) a hedge maze, which, although of fairly modern con-struction, probably replaced an earlier specimen. Our photograph, Fig. 8 6 (see Frontispiece), was taken,by kind permission, from the roof of Hatfield
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