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PLEASURE GROUND. 





One of the subjects to which I was instructed to direct par- 

 ticular attention, was the fence and line of demarkation betwixt 



the Lawn to be fed and that to be mown and dressed as 



ground. The general fall of the ground from the House to 



th 



e 



Valley 



is an in 



ine 



plane, witl 



i 



the 



ption of a small 



the centre, which had 



kind of bastion 



een artificially converted into a 



th 



is 



left 



a 



nsiderable space to be covered 



with Flowers and Shrubs ; but when I began to mark the situ 



ations of clumps and patches, I placed persons at different sta- 

 tions, and found that in every part of the surface of this Lawn 

 beyond the distance of 25 feet from the House, any shrub of six 

 feet high would hide not only the meadow below, but also that 

 line of River which, by an uninterrupte 



continuity of glitter, 

 constitutes the leading feature of the place. This is very different 

 from the stagnant sheets of water (as they are called) which 

 require masses of planting to hide the mechanism of their 

 artificial deception. One obvious advantage of removing the 



fence so much nearer the House, will 

 the appearance of Cattle to animate th 



that 



f introducing 



Landscap 



by 



their perspective effects to shew the distance of Lawn betwixt 



and perhaps a certain portion of 



the House and the Tarn 



the opposite bank might 





same view 



wh 



Weir proposed 



e thrown into pasture 



wi 



th th 



en access can be had to it 



means of th 



