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state, where the 



view into the same lawn becomes ti 



some 



monotonous: and where the h 



an 



the water 



the axis round which we turn, we feel in a manner tethered 



to 



certain point; and it would 



relief to have th 



e atten 



• 



tion drawn 

 beautiful. 



away to other objects more 



though not so 



■a 



Having classed under the same head of Small Places 



or Villas several 



subjects of very different magnitude and im- 



portance, one more may be added, to which not an acre 

 longed; and therefore it may serve to shew, that the quantity 



also 



of acres attached does not make a place large or small ; an 

 as yielding a striking example of the difference to be observed 

 betwixt the Scenery of a Park and that of a Garden, bl 

 utility with ornament, an 

 exposed to the public. 



enain 



giving 



privacy to a situation most 



modern Villa, called White Lodge, is situated nearly in 

 the centre of Richmond Park. This has long been granted by 



the King as a residence to Lord Viscount Sidmouth. 



When I 



first visited the spot in 1805, a small quantity of land had re- 

 cently been allotted from the Park; without which, indeed, the 

 house was before hardly habitable; for, although it was sur- 



rounae 



on every side with varied landscape, and the scenery 

 of a forest rather than that of a park, being one of the royal 

 domains, the deer and cattle of the forest had access to the 





