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limited scale, and the park of no great extent. The 

 hanging garden, which consists of terraces taste- 

 fully laid out, and ornamented with shrubs and beds 

 of flowers, is extremely beautiful. To the west of 

 the castle, a romantic path passing through alter- 

 nate rows of beech and fir, skirting the edge of the 

 hill, and having the park on the left, and the vale 

 on the right, terminates about a mile from the castle 

 at a temple surrounded by aged firs, and command- 

 ing beautiful views on the west and north. Down 

 the steep on the west, extend woods to the very 

 margin of a small but delightful lake, from whence 

 the eye ranges across fields to the broAvn heath of 

 Gilling moor, and onwards to the woods and park 

 of Newbrough, the ruins of Byland abbey, and 

 the Hamlleton hills. On the right are seen across 

 the vale, the long scattered village of Ampleforth, 

 its college and neat parish church, placed immedi- 

 ately at the foot of the Hambleton hills, which rise 

 abruptly to the north, the dark heath on whose so- 

 litary summit is pleasingly contrasted by the ani- 

 mated and verdant scene below, where fields of 

 green, interspersed with cattle, or enlivened by the 

 occupations of a busy peasantry, every where pre- 

 sent themselves. 



The estate at Gilling, was once only a small appeil- 

 dage of the illustrious family of Fairfax, who also 

 possessed very considerable estates in other parts 

 of Yorkshire, at Nunappleton, Bolton Percy, Cop- 

 manthorpe, Bilbrough, Denton, Newton Ryme, and 

 the immense forfeited estates of George Walton 



j second duke of Buckingham, of that name. 

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