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house. In front runs the great terrace, like a fortification 

 crossing the summit and commanding the valleys which wind 

 down to Stroud and the Severn, which lies to the right front. 

 To the left are other valleys, in the nearest of which Bisley 

 the " Seven Springs " gush out of the rock, now vaulted over 

 and furnished with stone spouts. These springs go down to the 

 Severn, and are not to be confused with the Seven Springs 

 which form one of the sources uf the Thames ten miles away. 





The park and woods are full of great forest trees the 

 beech especially grows to an unusual size. From Bisley a 

 beech avenue nearly a mile long runs to the house. Modem 

 ideas of tree planting are carried out in a large pinetum, in 

 which not only conifers, but all new and rare trees introduced 

 into this country, are planted from year to year. Pines and 

 cypresses shelter the lawns, and three ancient fish-ponds, 

 covered with ornamental water-fowl, are not the least 



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