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necessary to the importance of a mansion : from the 

 same Red Book the following extract is taken : 



As a number of labourers constitutes one of the 

 requisites of grandeur, comfortable habitations for its 

 poor dependants ought to be provided. It is no more 

 necessary that these habitations should be seen immedi- 

 ately near the palace than that their inhabitants should 

 dine at the same table ; but if their humble dwellings 

 can be made a subordinate part of the general scenery, 

 they will, so far from disgracing it, add to the dignity 

 that wealth can derive from the exercise of benevolence. 

 Under such impressions and with such sentiments I am 

 peculiarly happy in being called upon to mark a spot 

 for new cottages, instead of those which it is necessary 

 to remove, not absolutely because they are too near the 

 house, for that is hardly the case with those cottages in 

 the dell, but because, the turnpike road being removed, 

 there will be no access for the inhabitants but through 

 a part of the park, which cannot then be private. I must 

 advise, however, that some one or more of the houses 

 in this dell be left, and inhabited either as a keeper's 

 house, a dairy, or a menagerie, that the occasional smoke 

 from the chimneys may animate the scene. The pictur- 

 esque and pleasing effect of smoke ascending, when 

 relieved by a dark hanging wood in the deep recess of 

 a beautiful glen like this, is a circumstance by no means 

 to be neglected. 



As an example of a place in a mountainous country 

 the following extract from the Red Book of Riig, in 

 North Wales, is subjoined : 



At a period when the ancient family honours of a 

 neighbouring country are rooted out with savage barbar- 

 ity, I rejoice in an opportunity of contributing my assist- 



