NOTE.--The arrangement of the following Division assumes the visitor to enter the Garden from the Central Transept, whence he proceeds to inspect the _Terraces_ and the _Italian Garden_. Passing down the central steps from the second Terrace, and round the _Great Circular Fountain_, he proceeds to the left, and continuing the path, explores the _English Landscape Garden_, and the _Archery Ground_, beyond which is the _Park_, the _Cricketing Ground_, from which, proceeding half round the basin of one of the _Great Fountains_, he reaches the _Grand Plateau_, and examines the _Geological Restorations and the Extinct Animals on the Islands in the Lake_. Leaving the _Plateau_, he skirts the basin of the second _Great Fountain_, and proceeding by the _Rosary_, completes the circuit of the grounds. An account of the _Great Water Towers_, in connection with the system of _Fountains_, and of the _Artesian Well_ and the _Water Supply_ is then added. [Illustration: PLAN OF THE GARDENS AND PARK PRINTED BY R.K. BURT, HOLBORN HILL, CITY. A. GREAT CIRCULAR FOUNTAIN B. B. WATER TEMPLES AND CASCADES C. THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE GARDEN] [Illustration: The Park and Gardens.] THE SITE. The Crystal Palace stands in the county of Surrey, immediately on the confines of Kent, bordered on one side by Sydenham, and on the other by Norwood and Anerley, whilst Penge lies at the foot of the hill, and Dulwich Wood at the top. No particular topographical or historical facts are associated with these places. Sydenham, however, is invested with some literary interest as having been the residence of the poet Campbell, the author of the “Pleasures of Hope,” who passed, as he says in one of his letters, the happiest years of his life in this suburban village, and who wrote here the whole of “Gertrude of Wyoming.” THE PARK AND GARDENS. The Crystal Palace and its grounds occupy two hundred acres, and it is of importance to note that, in the formation of the gardens, the same uniformity of parts is adhered to as in the building itself; that is to say, the width of the walks, the width and length of the basins of the fountains, the length of the terraces, the breadth of the steps, are all multiples and sub-multiples of the one primary number of eight. By this symmetrical arrangement perfect harmony prevails, unconsciously to the looker-on, in the structure and in the grounds.