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 lake which fed the principal river. A piece of old water pipe is still to be seen on the northwestern side of the small lake.

If this "ruine" and two others of those alluded to in the archives were one and the same, there is additional reason for placing the columned building in this part of the garden. I. In 1788 it is stated that rocks were placed at intervals on a path leading from "la ruine" to the "2$1$ source du ravin" beyond the wooden bridge. Desjardins considers one of the "sources" to have been close to the theatre which was at our right hand; this might have been the second spring. II. Mique states that in 1780 he placed a small architectural "ruine" above the grotto. A note in the archives, dated 1777, speaks of the "porte d'entrée au bout du grotte." If, as we believe, we had just passed out of the gardener's yard by this "porte d'entrée" we should have been close to the earliest placed grotto.

In 1909 two old maps were procured from Paris; in one, dated 1840(?), there is something which may indicate a small round building