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Of the interior of Goodwood house, the most 

 striking object is a colonnade in the vestibule, or 

 entrance hall. This room is divided by six pillars 

 of Guernsey granite, of a light grey colour, the 

 shafts being 13 feet high, with a diameter of one 

 foot 7 inches. Tbe dining room and library are 

 splendidly fitted up with designs from the antique. 

 The picture gallery, which is 86 by 24 feet, among 

 others, contains valuable paintings by Vandyke, 

 Leley, Battoni, Gainsborough, &c. &c., besides 

 several landscapes with portraits of celebrated 

 horses, by Stubbs. The stables and offices, west- 

 ward of the house, and perhaps rather too near 

 to it, form a handsome quadrangular building, in- 

 ferior to few, if any in the kingdom. The stables 

 were began 1757, and finished in six years, from a 

 design of Sir William Chambers. The dog kennel, 

 which is said to have cost £25,000, is both for ex- 

 tent, and singular arrangment, unequalled by any 

 other in England ; it was designed, and built by 

 James Watts. Among the curiosities of Goodwood, 

 is the lion carved in wood, which adorned the 

 head of Commodore Anson's ship the Centurian, 

 during his circumnavigation of the globe. It is set 

 up on a stone pedestal, with the following hues in- 

 scribed on it. 



Stay, traveller, awhile and view 

 One who has travelled more than you ; 

 Quite round the globe, in each degree, 

 Anson, and I, have ptoughed the sea f 



