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were moments ; while the powers of intellect are 

 carried away in wondering contemplation on these 

 extensive and charming prospects. 



THE MANSION 



is built in the Doric style, after a design by Sir 

 John Vanbrugh. The west front of it is considered 

 an excellent specimen of that order. The interior of 

 this princely building is superb, and in every thing 

 worthy of the noble personages Avho inhabit it. The 

 hall is an astonishing fine entrance ; it is 60ft. long 

 and 40ft. wide, surrounded by fourteen lofty Corin- 

 thian pillars, and ornamented with several statues ; 

 two of which are worthy of particular notice ; an 

 excellent antique sculpture, representing the dog of 

 Alcibiades,* said to have been the work of Myron. f 

 Dallaway, in his description of statuary and 

 sculpture, says, " it was discovered at Monte Cag- 

 nuolo, and procured by Henry Constantino Jen- 



* Alcibiades had a dog of uncommon size and beauty, 

 which cost him ^226 Os, lOd. ; and yet his tail, which 

 was his principal ornament, he caused to be cut off. Some 

 of his acquaintance told him, that all Athens rang with 

 his foolish treatment of his dog : at which he smiled 

 and said that is the very thing I wished ; for I would 

 have the Athenians talk of the dog, lest they should 

 find something worse to say of me. 



f Myron was a celebrated statuary of Eleutherce in 

 Boeotia, peculiarly happy in imitating nature. He made 

 his animals so nearly resembling life, that even those of 

 their own species, were deceived, and approached them 

 as if alive, as is frequently mentioned by many epigrams 

 in the Authologia. He flourished about 442 years before 

 Christ ; so that this statue of Alcibiade's dog, most 

 fcayc been sculptured at least 2,250 years ago. 



