In the drawings [our figs. 126 and 127], the slide [our fig. 126] represents the trees which have been removed, not only because they stood in a line through the middle of the ground, and hid the dome, but also because the ground on which they stood has been lowered to form the valley. It may, perhaps, be deemed too great a refinement in taste, to say that a pool is absolutely necessary in this place, because no Indian building is ever seen without; it is not, therefore, to preserve the character of such scenery that the pool is advisable, but, rather, for its utility in supplying the garden with water attempered by the air, and for its beauty in reflecting the surrounding objects. The pool is proposed to be square, rather than round, for the following reasons: First, That a small square pool will appear larger than a round one of the same dimensions, because the eye is checked in its progress, and the angles being seen perspectively, it varies its shape with the position of the spectator; while the round pool is always seen in the same point of view. Secondly, That the inverted picture, formed by the reflection of its margin, is larger and more varied. And, lastly, that such pools in India are generally of this shape.
