10 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



ter suited to the Castle. Ardgowan, in Ayr- 

 shire, and Kinfciuns, near Perth, will illustrate 

 this observation. 



The former, though of considerable height, 

 yet, being approached by a gradual ascent 

 through easy swelling folds of ground, might 

 have been properly crowned with a Grecian 

 Edifice, had the immediate ground on which 

 it stands been of sufficient extent and easy 

 surface. As it is, I think the character of 

 the mansion the only fault, in a place where 

 grandeur and variety are more happily 

 blended than I have any where met with. 



Through an opening in the wood, which 

 clothes the south side of the eminence, you 

 catch a little bay of the Clyde, enlivened by 

 all the circumstances of fishing boats, figures, 

 nets, &c., combined with the straggling 

 skirts of the village, and backed by a bold 

 swell of hill. Looking more to the west, you 

 have the Isle of Bute, with the romantic 

 peaks of Arran rising behind it, and the sea 

 extending beyond them to the Irish coast ; 

 whilst following the prospect round to the 

 north, the Clyde, from the more contracted 

 line of the opposite shore, assumes the cha- 

 racter of a magnificent lake, stretching its 

 varying reaches up to Loch Long, and 



