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The magnificent Library, or L 



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COll-isU of 



compartments, with a fire-place in each, and a ilue near the 



windows of the bow: the centre is fifty feet by ivvenix « i Jit 



opening into two recesses, or tribunes, of differem shapes, (itlec 



up in very different manners, one beintr for music-books ;im l 



instruments, the other for hooks of prinls and portfolios oi 



drawings; and both joined to 1 he large library l>\ a akreen of 



columns, or at pleasure separated from it by drapery si: 

 tains. All this is repeated by a large mirror over the fire-pl 



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which, aided by three apertures for stained glass above 1 lie 



level of the bookcases, prevents this end from bring deficient 



in light, and gives to the whole an air of united cheerfulness, 

 magnificence, and novelty. 



On leaving these new rooms, N°6, 7, and 8, we enter the 

 old suite of apartments, N° 9, 10, and 11, now opening into each 



other by large folding doors, and from the spot marked X w< 

 have two enfilades, one of about three hundred feel, but in fact 



by the mirror of Flora, rendered indefinite; and ihe other of 

 about seventy feet along the two green-houses, through the en- 

 trance-porch, and terminating either by a statue or I untain, 



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or doubled by another mirror at the en 



On the Plan are distinguished by a light brown wash, ihe 



grounds for use and not for ornament, being invisible from ihe 



i i i r. +u^o/* whinh nrr visible from the 



house; and by a green wash those which are visible from the 

 principal rooms, consisting of landscape and park seen, ry 



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where the cattle are prevented from breaking the windows by 

 a dwarf terrace-wail, richly dressed with flowers, winch forms 



