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The gestatio is hedged with box, and with rosemary where the box is wanting; for box grows well where it is sheltered by buildings, but withers when exposed in an open situation to the wind, and especially within reach of spray from the sea.
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To the inner circle of the gestatio is joined a shady walk of vines, soft and tender even to the naked feet.
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Within the circuit of the gestatio there is also a cryptoportico, for extent comparable to public buildings, having windows on one side looking to the sea, on the other to the garden.
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Beside it is a triclinium, where the noise of the sea is never heard but in a storm, and then faintly, looking out upon the garden and the _gestatio_, or place for taking the air in a carriage or litter, which encompasses it.
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