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to the professors. I need but name General 

 Con way's rustic bridge, at Park Place, of which 

 every stone was placed by his own direction in 

 one of the most beautiful scenes in nature ; and 

 the theatric staircase designed and just erected 

 by Mr. Chute, at his seat of the Vine in Hamp- 

 shire. If a model is sought of the most perfect 

 taste in architecture, where grace softens dig- 

 nity, and lightness attempers magnificence; 

 where proportion removes every part from 

 peculiar observation, and delicacy of execution 

 recalls every part to notice ; where the position 

 is most happy, and even the color of the stone 

 the most harmonious, the virtuoso should be 

 directed to the new front* of Wentworth 

 Castle, the result of the same elegant judg- 

 ment that had before distributed so many 

 beauties over that domain, and called from 

 wood, water, hills, prospects, and buildings, a 

 compendium of picturesque nature, improved 

 by the chastity of art. Such an era will de- 

 mand a better historian. With pleasure, there- 

 fore, I resign my pen, presuming to recommend 

 nothing to my successor, but to observe a strict 

 impartiality. 

 AUGUST 2, 1770. 



* The old front, still extant, was erected by Thomas 

 Wentworth, late Earl of Stafford ; the new one was 

 entirely designed by the present Karl William himself. 



