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fee îhe famé tirefome and returmng uiiiformlty. Every houfe 

 is approached by two or three gardens, confijling perhaps of 

 a gravel-walk and two grafs-plats, or borders of Jîowers, 

 Each rifes above the other by two or three Jieps, and as 

 many walls and terrajjes ; and fo many ir on- gâtes y that we 

 recolleB thofe ancient romances^ in which every entrance was 

 guarded by nymphs or dragons, At lady Orford's at Fid- 

 dletown in Dorfetfinre, there wasy when my brother marriedy 

 a double inclofure of thirteen gardens, each I fuppofe not a 

 hundred yards fquare, with an enfilade of correfpondent gâtes ; 

 and before y ou arrived at thefe, y ou paffed a narrow gut be- 

 tween two fione terraffesy that rofe above your heady and 

 which were crowned by a Une of pyramidal yews. A bowling- 

 green was ail the lawn admitted in thofe times, a circular 

 lake the extent of magnifcence. 



Yet though thefe and fuch prepoflerous i?iconveniencies pre- 

 vailed from âge to âge y good fenfe in this country had perceived 

 the want of fomething at once more grand and more natural, 

 Thefe refeèlions and the bounds fet to the wafie made by royal 

 fpoilers, gave origine to parks. They were contraBedforeJîs, 

 and extended gardens. He?itznerfays, that according to Rous 



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