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extent, with as little variety or interest as Salisbury Plain; and 

 walks and drives of many miles in length, through shrubberies 

 and plantations, without any change of scenery, or any diversity of 

 features; while in Architecture we occasionally see huge masses 



10 1 it shape or proportion, boasting the ground they cover, 

 le apartments they contain, yet with less appearance of a 

 palace than a cotton-mill, or a manufactory. I am here led to 

 make a marked distinction between the improvements relating 



witl 



to Art 



d those relating to Nature, from th 



two leading 



cumstances to which my attention was first called, viz. the pro- 

 per situation for the stables, and the proper management of the 

 Water: the latter belongs to Landscape Gardening, as an Art 



which imitates Nature 



the former to Architectur 



that adorns Nature 



as an 



Art 



and 



in 



to the Art of Landscape Gard 



deed forms the strongest auxiliary 



tc 



This Mansion was built at 



Character 



ie period when the Goth 



ic 



giving place to the introduction of R 



Grecian Architecture 



oman and 



Grecian 



d although some would call the House 



rom its Pilasters 



Entablatures 



appear 



Goth 



om the bold 



yet its general 



quare projection of the 



windows, and the varied outline of the roof, occasioned by the 



turrets and lofty chimneys, and th 



a 



Th 



e 



& 



lit Towers 



open-work enrichments 



the roof are 



sion some confusion 



placed 



to occa- 



perspective, from whatever point 

 been placed at regular distances, th 

 building would have been weakened 



rather a certain degree of intricacy in 



e y 



viewed 



; had they 

 e effect of grandeur in this 



To explain this, I must 



