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CHAPTER XVI. 



VISIT TO EATON HALL. THE LARGEST ARCH IN THE WORLD. THE OUTER 



PARK. BACKWOODS FARMING. THE DEER PARK. THE HALL. THE PAR 

 TERRE. THE LAWX. THE FRUIT GARDEN. STABLES. 



IN the afternoon we walked to Eaton park. 

 Probably there is no object of art that Americans of 

 cultivated taste generally more long to see in Europe, than 

 an English park. What artist, so noble, has often been my 

 thought, as he, who with far-reaching conception of beauty 

 and designing power, sketches the outline, writes the colours, 

 and directs the shadows of a picture so great that Nature 

 shall be employed upon it for generations, before the work 

 he has arranged for her shall realize his intentions. 



Eaton hall and park is one of the seats of the Marquis of 

 Westminster, a very wealthy nobleman, who has lately been 

 named &quot; Lord High Chamberlain to her Majesty,&quot; a kind of 

 state-housekeeper or steward, I take it an office which 

 Punch, and a common report of a niggardly disposition in 

 his private affairs, deems him particularly appropriate to. 



We left town by the new, or Grosvenor bridge a sim 

 ple, grand, and every way excellent work, crossing the Dee 

 by a single arch, which we are told is the largest in the 

 world. It is entirely free from decorative ornament, and the 

 effect of it, as seen looking from the river side, is most im 

 posing. I know of nothing in America to compare with it. 



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