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Jlanàs behmd a hiJl, from the top of whîch it laouîd cont" 

 mand Stamford. Our ancejiors who refided the greatejl part 

 of the year at their feats, as others did two years together 

 or more, had an eye to comfort firjly before expence, Their 

 vaji manjions received and harboured ail the younger branches^ 

 the dowagers and ancîe7ît fnaide?î aunts of the familles, 

 and other familles vifited them for a mo?ith together, The 

 ?nethod of living is now totally changed, and yet the famé 

 fuperb palaces are Jiill created, becoming a poînpous folitude 

 to the owner, aud a tranfient entertainment to a few tra- 

 vellers. 



If any incident abolijhes or refrains the modem fyle of 

 gardening, it will be this circumfiance of folitarinefs. The 

 greater the fcene, the more difant it is probably from the 

 capital; in the neighbourhood of which land is too dear to 

 admit confderable extent of property, Mcn tire of expence 

 that is obvions to few fpeBators. Still there is a more îm^ 

 minent danger that threatens the prefent, as it has ever 

 done, ail tajie. I mean the purfuit of variety. A modem 

 French writer has in a very affeBed phrafe given a jujî 

 account of this, I will call it, difiemper, He fays, U ennui 



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