difference, and is disposed to give the
preference to the latter as evincing greater ingenuity than the mere
patient chiselling of the quarry-stone. The pools are symmetrical, in
conformity to the style of their surroundings, their overflows curved,
the successive falls being about two feet after the first dash nine
hundred and twenty feet from the balcony level. Each side of the
cascade is flanked by six small pools in which are spouting and spray
jets. The course ends in a pool which may be described as square, with
circular bays on three of its sides. In this are one large jet and two
smaller ones, which are themselves beautiful and keep the surface in
a pleasant ripple. The corner pillars are crowned by colossal gilt
figures of animals, supposed to represent what we were used to call
the "four quarters of the earth"--Europe, Asia, Africa and America, as
the books had it before America had attained any prominence in public
estimation. These are typified by a horse, an elephant, a rhinoceros
and a bull, the latter probably a tribute to our bison, but not much
like him. These face the four winds, so to speak, and do indeed more
nearly, as they are set obliquely, than do the grounds and buildings,
the length of which runs north-west and south-east. Each animal has
his back to the pool, and with one exception is in a rampant attitude.

Many thousands of cubic metres of stone were quarried away to afford a
site for the cascade, for the system of water-pipes which supply the
various pools and jets and conduct off the surplus. The size of the
site occupied by these hydraulic works is 360 by 75 feet.

The balcony of the Trocadero facing toward the river and the Champ
de Mars affords the most extensive view obtainable in the grounds.
Beneath is the cascade with its basins and fountains, and spreading
away on each side is the garden with its various national buildings,
neat, gaudy or grotesque. Spanning the invisible roads and river is
the broad Pont d'Iena, and then comes a repetition of the garden, the
sward dotted with parterres and buildings. A broad terrace, crowned
with the splendid facade of the main building, does not quite
terminate the view, for from the height of the lower corridor of
the rotunda the buildings of Paris are seen to stretch away in the
distance. The hill of Montmartre on the north and the heights of
Chatillon and Clamart on the south terminate the view in those
directions.

The cascade immediately