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of the Queen's Pillar, and the solitary appear- 

 ance of the rotunda, give it an air of gravity ; it 

 is encompassed with wood ; and all external 

 views are excluded ; even the opening into the 

 lawn is but an opening into an enclosure. 



At the King's Pillar, very near to this, is an- 

 other lovely spot, which is small, but not con- 

 fined, for no termination appears ; the ground 

 one way, the water another, retire under the 

 trees out of sight, but nowhere meet with a 

 boundary ; the view is first over some very 

 broken ground, thinly and irregularly planted ; 

 then between two beautiful clumps, which fea- 

 ther down to the bottom, and afterwards across 

 a glade, and through a little grove beyond it, 

 to that part of the lake where the thickets close 

 upon the brink, spread a tranquillity over the 

 surface, in which their shadows are reflected. 

 Nothing is admitted to disturb that quiet ; no 

 building obtrudes ; for objects to fix the eye are 

 needless in a scene, which may be compre- 

 hended at a glance ; and none would suit the 

 pastoral idea it inspires, of elegance too refined 

 for a cottage, and of simplicity too pure for any 

 other edifice. 



The situation of the rotunda promises a pros- 

 pect more enlarged, and, in fact, most of the 

 objects on this side the garden are there visible ; 

 but they want both connection and contrast ; 



