j 14 Dr. Falconer on the Style and Tafte 
After this account of the natural beauties of 
this elegant fituation, which its noble poffeffor 
fecms to have been thoroughly fenfible of, and 
to have entered into with the higheit taile and 
delight, we are furprized and forry, to fee the 
artificial part of the profpedt, form fo difgraceful 
a contrail. The Xyilus, or court before the 
portico, for walking and exercife, was parted 
into numerous divifions of diverfe ihape, all 
edged'with box. The Hope lawn, or dcfcent 
from thence, was bordered on the Tides with 
figures of beads, cut in box trees. The interior 
fpace feems to have been planted (probably here 
and there only) with acanthus. Thefe were 
iurrounded by a walk, (haded by ever-greens, 
ihorn into different ihapes : and the whole again 
incircled by a riding path, which was fecured on 
the outfide by a wall, or rather mound of earth, 
covered with box trees, rifing one row abdve 
another, in form of fteps. Oppofite to the 
middle of the portico, there was a fmall court, 
forrounded by a fummer-houfe, and ihaded by 
four plane trees, in the midft of which, a 
fountain arofe into a marble bafon, and running 
over the edges, fprinkled the trees and the grafs 
underneath. In the front of the buildings, lay a 
plantation of trees, in form of an Hippodrome, 
open in the middle, in order that its whole extent 
might be perceived at one view, and incircled 
with plane trees, covered with ivy, in fuch a 
manner? 
