. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. Fig. 112.—Hampton Court. The Wilderness, with Maze and Plan- de-Troy, in Eighteenth Century. (Engraving by J. Rocque,1736.) said to have been a verdant representation of militarydefence works, cut yew and variegated holly beingtaught, as Walpole says, to imitate the lines, angles,bastions, scarps and counter-scarps of regular fortifi-cations. The rather curious unicursal maze of three meandersshown in Fig. 114 is usually, , in the Encyclopaedia130 4 1 •i i •ti 4 •i «i 4 «ii 4 «i •i 4 •i *i •i 4 •i 4 •i > •i *i
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. Fig. 112.—Hampton Court. The Wilderness, with Maze and Plan- de-Troy, in Eighteenth Century. (Engraving by J. Rocque,1736.) said to have been a verdant representation of militarydefence works, cut yew and variegated holly beingtaught, as Walpole says, to imitate the lines, angles,bastions, scarps and counter-scarps of regular fortifi-cations. The rather curious unicursal maze of three meandersshown in Fig. 114 is usually, , in the Encyclopaedia130 4 1 •i i •ti 4 •i «i 4 «ii 4 «i •i 4 •i *i •i 4 •i 4 •i > •i *i 1 1 *j «y. 11 1>4 •, •p *i •i 4 •ti *-, 4 4 •i *i •i *i •i »i •i •) •i *i 4 »i •i 4 •i * X .<k
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