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CLIFTON HALL, 

 NOTTINGHAM , 



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LT.-COL. SIR HERVEY BRUCE. 



IOSE who go in 

 quest of tlu- beauties 

 ot English gardens. 

 associated with many splendours "I architecture and mam "t 

 the interests of histury. will find them in every p.irt ..t tin- 

 land. Our survey IKIS t.iki-n u>- n>rth. sout'i. e;ist. and wc-st. 

 and we have found our su 1 u-t nu- n the level plain, 



sometime^ amn^ broken undul.it m^ .mint- n.tllv in 



deep valleys, and nut seldom on lofty height*. Each and 

 every situation demands a treatment of its mvn. and the 

 happy adaptation of the house to the landscape and of the 

 garden to both is the object of the artist's hand, an I its 

 delineation is the reason of the present delightful quest. In 



not a few places have \\e 1"imd the character of the land 

 demanding, or .it le.ist su^t-sting. a terr.uv I f-imation for 

 gardens. This is imtahly the CUC at ( .niton Hall. The 

 terrace has sometimes tvi-n found WVCfdy formal andclassual. 

 at times invested with vari-.-d leatures and much picturesque- 

 ness, .in : allv takmu the form f an adaptation o| the 

 ground itself. This last m.i\ lv sji.l t.. Iv the character ..( 

 The -tr.it - ass terraces at ditto i Hall, l >ut they 

 \\iihMiperb garden arjiitecture. in a most s.itistact.-r v \v.i\. 

 Of them, however, more anon. 



The house stands on an al.ihister r.K'k ..vetUioking tin- 

 wide past'.ial vallex- ot the slow -winding Trent, making its 

 way throuji the greenw I country to the Humher and the 



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TME OLD CHAPEL AND FOUNTAIN. 



