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The tear was ornamented with gardens, laid out and plaated 

 in the fafhion of the laft century ; and the parks and fields of the 

 demefne feem to have been well divided and enclofed. 



At prefent every objedt in this place prefents to view peculiar 

 charaders of defolation. The gardens are totally denuded of trees 

 and fhrubs, by the fury of the weftern winds : their walls, un- 

 able to fuftain the mafs of overbearing fands, have bent before 

 the accumulated preffure, and, overthrown in nuinberlefs places, 

 have given free paffage to this reftlefs enemy of all fertility. 

 The courts, the flights of fteps, the terraces, are all involved 

 in equal ruin ; and their limits only difcoverable by tops of 

 embattled walls, vifible amid hills of fand. 



The manfion itfelf, yielding to the unconquerable fury of the 

 tempeft, approaches faft to deftrudtion : The freighted whirlwind, 

 howling through every avenue and crevice, bears inceflantly along 

 its drifted burthen, which has already filled the lower apartments 

 o£ the building, and begins now to rife above the once ele- 

 vated thrdfholds. Fields, fences, villages, invcvlved in common 

 defolation, are reduced to one undiftinguifhable fcene of fterile 

 uniformity ; and twelve hundred acres of land are faid thus to have 

 been buried, within a fhort period, in irrecoverable ruin *. 



Hence 



* It would be teazing to dwell on a repetition of ilmrlai* examples. I fhall juft 

 mention two others. In a fummer excurfion from College, in the year 17S7, paffing 



■from 



