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As for the particulars of this great Work, the annexed Mapp will give farther information of them. In it
A. The Point of Separation being beneath the Town of Mont-ferand, near the high way of Tholose, below the Stones of Naurouze. It is so called, because that from this place the waters run naturally, on one side, to the Ocean, by the Garonne, and on the other, towards the Mediterranean, by the Aude. In that place is to be a great Bason, Octogonal Oval-wise, 200 fathoms long, and 150 fath. large; which shall be surrounded with 72 houses to be raised on Arches: Over against which there shall be built a key for the convenience of those that shall dwel there, which is to be very spatious, and faced with hewen stone. This great Bason shall receive all the waters, which the Deriving Channel is to conveigh thither from the Black Mountain, to be distributed by the Royal Channel to both Seas. In the middle of this Bason shall be a Colosse, representing the King standing in a Triumphant Charret, drawn by four Sea-horses, holding one foot upon a Globe, and a Trident in his hand, as marks of his greatness both by Sea and Land. And then a streame of water, issuing as from a Source under the Charret, shall as 'twere be beaten back, and disgorge itself through the throat of Serpents toward the four parts of the World, represented by as many Rivers, which shall also poure out of their urnes a prodigious quantity of water, to shew, that the Graces, which the Liberality of the King plentfully diffuses to all his people, do pass through the hands of the Lord Colbert.
B. The Stones of N urouze, lying on the left hand of the high way of Tholose on the side of a little hillock.
C. 'The Fountain of Grave, whence the waters run partly to the Ocean, partly to the Mediterranean.
D. The Black Mountain, on which there is a great Forrest, called Remonde, so pleasant in Summer, that the Counts of Tholose did heretofore pass there that whole season in the divertisement of Hunting. It was from hence, that it mas found possible to make this Channnel, by the means of the Five Rivers and a great number of rivolets, issuing thence; without the concourse Whereof it had been impossible to undertake it and to render it navigable. It is in this Mountain, a good way under the Mill of Calz, on the river Sor, where begins the Channel of Derivation, which hath its declivities through terrible precipices, where it receives the rivers Bernassone, Lampi, Rietor, Alzau, and Lampillon, , to conveigh them into the Magazine of St. Feriol, by the means of an other Conduit, when need shall be to fill it. It would be troublesome to relate all the pains, which this Channel of Derivation, almost all cut through rocks, hath cost; or the number of Dams, that were necessary to be made athwart many rivers, to divert their natural course; or lastly the Mountains that were to be levelled, having been counted afore inaccessible rocks, and affording now agreable Walkes.
F. The Channel of Derivation, digged in the Black Mountain, and receiving all its rivers.
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