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taste, applied to a country seat, arid there are few in the 

 I'nion, taken as a whole, superior to it.* 



Collate residence of Mrs. Camac. This is one of the 

 most agreeable places within a few miles of Philadelphia. 

 The house is a picturesque cottage, in the rural gothic 

 style, with very charming and appropriate pleasure-grounds, 

 comprising many groups and masses of large and finely 

 grown trees, interspersed with a handsome collection of 

 shrubs and plants; the whole very tastefully arranged. 

 The lawn is prettily varied in surface, and there is a con- 

 servatory attached to the house, in which the plants in 

 pots are hidden in beds of soft green moss, and which, in 

 its whole effect and management, is more tasteful and ele- 

 gant than any plant house, connected with a dwelling, that 

 we remember to have seen. 



Stenton, near Germantown, four miles from Philadelphia, 

 is a fine old place, with many picturesque features. The 

 farm consists of 700 acres, almost without division fences - 

 admirably managed - - and remarkable for its grand old 

 avenue of the hemlock spruce, 110 years old, leading to a 

 family cemetery of much sylvan beauty. There is a large 

 and excellent old mansion, with paved halls, built in 1731, 

 which is preserved in its original condition. This place 

 was the seat of the celebrated Logan, the friend of William 

 Penn, and is now o\vned by his descendant, Albanus Logan. 



The villa residence of Alexander Brown, Esq., is situated 



* The farm is 300 acres in extent, and, in the time of De Witt Clinton, 

 was pronounced by him the model farm of the United States. At the 

 I in-sent time we know nothing superior to it; and Capt. Barclay, in his 

 agricultural tour, says it was the only instance of regular, scientific sys- 

 tem of husbandry in the English manner, he saw in America. Indeed, the 

 large and regular fields, filled with luxuriant crops, everywhere of an 

 exact evenness of growth, and everywhere free from weeds of any sort; 

 the perfect system of manuring and culture; the simple and complete 

 fences; the fine stock; the very spacious barns, every season newly 

 \\hile\vashed internally and externally, paved with wood, and as clean 

 as a gentleman's stable (with stalls to fatten 90 head of cattle); these, 

 and the masterly way in which the whole is managed, both as regards 

 culture and profit, render this estate one of no common interest in an 

 agricultural, as well as ornamental point of view. A. J. D. 



