FRAGMENT XIV. 





WINGERWORTH. 



EXTRACT FROM THE RED BOOK OF WINGERWORTH 



IN DERBYSHIRE 



A SEAT OF SIR WINDSOR HUNLOCK, BART. 



CHARACTER AND SITUATION. 



The elevated situation of the House, on one of those broad hills 

 peculiar to the most picturesque county in England, would 

 alone stamp the character of importance on the place, in what- 

 ever style the house might have been built; for where we see 

 a large pile of building on the summit of the hill, we are na- 

 turally led to compare its relative importance with the scenery 



to which it belongs. And here we shall be surprised, on ap 





proaching the mansion, to find it so much larger, richer, an 



more dignified, than it appears from a distance: the reason is, 

 that the mansion is one square mass, almost a cube, and every 

 building which partakes of this form, however great its propor- 



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appears less than it really is, because the eye is 

 not attracted either by its length, depth, or height, each being 

 nearly equal: and it is only from a subordinate building placed 

 near it, that we form any idea of its real magnitude. 



The House at Wingerworth is one of those magnificent piles 





