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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



Cofynglit. 



THE PORTICO AND SOUTHERN WING. 



* Colt.ltiy Life." 



But it is now time to turn to the extraordinary mnn who 

 built Prior Park. Ralph Allen appears to have been the son 

 of one John Allen, the host of the " I Juke William," or the 

 "O!d Duke," at St. Blaxey, in Cornwall. His grandmother 

 kept the post-office at St. Cohunb, and it was the good fortune 



of the boy, while he was staying with her, to attract the 

 attention of a postal inspector, who procured him a place in the 

 post-office at Bath. There young Allen did himself credit, 

 and, by detecting a Jacobite plot, won the favour of 

 General Wade, whose natural daughter he afterwards 



Co fy tight. 



LOOKING NORTH. 



Country Lift." 



