Near the top of the Park was a reservoir or “fine piece of water” belonging to the Chelsea Waterworks, and the path round it was included in the fashionable promenade by those who paraded in the Queen’s Walk after dinner. Lower down, where there is still a depression, was a little pond, originally part of the Tyburn stream. The “green stagnant pool” was abused by a writer in 1731, who regretted that trees had just been planted near it, which probably meant that the offensive pool would “not soon be removed.” The prophecy was correct, for it was more than a hundred years later before this was filled up. The Park wall ran along Piccadilly, and here and there, as was often the case in the eighteenth century, there were gaps with iron rails, through which glimpses of the Park could be obtained. Some persons had private keys to the gates leading into the Park from Piccadilly. Daring robberies were by no means uncommon, and thieves, having done mischief in the streets near Piccadilly on more than one occasion, were found to be provided with keys to the gates, through which they could make their escape into the Park and elude their pursuers. The Ranger’s Lodge stood on the northern side, and was rebuilt and done up in 1773. It was made so attractive that there was great competition, when it was completed, to be Deputy-ranger and live there. The two stags which now stand on Albert Gate, Hyde Park, once adorned the gates of this Ranger’s Lodge. It is described in 1792 as “a very neat lodge surrounded by a shrubbery, which renders it enchantingly rural.” When George III. bought Buckingham House, then an old red-brick mansion, he took away the wall which separated the Green Park from St. James’s, and put a railing instead. In this wall was another lodge, and a few trees near it, known as the Wilderness. The aspect of the Mall has greatly changed since the days when its fashion was at its height. Then the gardens of St. James’s Palace ran the whole length of the north side from the Palace towards Whitehall. Stephen Switzer, writing in 1715, extols the beauty of the garden, which by his time was cut up and partly built on. “The Royal Garden in St. James’s Park, part of which is now in the possession of the Right Honourable Lord Carlton, and the upper part belonging to Marlborough House, was of that King’s [Charles II.] planting, which were in the remembrance of most people the finest Lines of Dwarfs perhaps in the Universe. Mr. London” ... presumed “before Monsieur de la Quintinye, the famous French gardener, ... to challenge all France with the like, and if France, why not the whole World?”