8 PAKKS AXD PLEASrUE-GROrXDS. 



sea^ oa 1^ bank of a lake, or in the Tidmtj of a liver, 

 as at l^htese ptnnts, besides the land sceneiy, we have tbat 

 life and yaiiety wbidi irater can alone afford. Tliere 

 are, boweiner, few rivers fenning the boimdaiies of estates 

 rf snffident breadth to allow the house to be erected 

 dcse to tlieir banks. Besides the risk of inundation and 

 of damp Tsiqpoiir, which is incident to low sitnations, there 

 is ahraTs the po^biKty of discordant or offensive objects 

 being erected on the oppodte ade. A more elevated 

 position^ eren though it mar be near some pnbHc road, 

 win probablT command eqoafly fine views of the river, 

 and at the same time will be more firee from intmsion, 

 than any of those lower down. We may add, that 

 certain baronial r^denoes^, and some of them of no 

 small ^lendonr, aze occa^onaUy seen standing on the 

 ade of street or road, having been erected there because 

 they were places of strength in ancient times. Such 

 remains of the old feudal glories we should be sorry to 

 see removed fiom where they are ; but similar situations 

 are now seldom or never adopted for new residences. 



Elepatkm of the Site. — ^The house should be placed 

 on ground moderately devated, of easy access, and com- 

 manding some of the best views of the park and the 

 sazronndiag scenery. The expression " ground mode- 

 rately devated" s^lies more to an undulating country 

 than to a level tract or to a hilly or mountainous r^on. 

 In a low, leirei, and well wooded country, the effect of 

 the manaon from without, and more particularly the 

 Tiews from i<^- would be entirely lost were it not built in 

 ihe hi^i^t position to be fbund within the park. In a 

 hin country, again, a comparatively ''moderate eleva- 

 tion" would probably place the house among the mists 

 and douds, whereas it might be secured from these, or at 



