The Willow Fountain
August 28th, 2008 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Willow fountain, Chatsworth, Derbyshire
There is another greene walke and about the middle of it by the Grove stands a fine Willow tree, the leaves barke and all looks very naturall, the roote is full of rubbish or great stones to appearance, and all on a sudden by turning a sluice it raines from each leafe and from the branches like a shower, it being made of brass and pipes to each leafe but in appearance is exactly like any Willow...
Celia Fiennes (1662–1741)
written after a visit to Chatsworth in 1697
(see The Journeys of Celia Fiennes, ed. Christopher Morris)
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