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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



and James Adam. This work now forms the south 

 front, with its great octostyle portico and pediment, 

 which looks over the romantic beauties of the park 



Henry, Earl of ShcTourne, and, upon inheriting the 

 maternal estates, he took the name of Petty in lieu ot 

 that of Kitzmaurice, which has since been reassumed. 



STAGS Oh' 11RONZE. 



and the lake to the distant heights of Marlborough 

 and Roundway Downs. The builder was the son of 

 Thomas Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry, by the sister of 



His son William, third Earl Shelburne, raised to the 

 dignity of Marquess of Lansdowne in 1784, was the 

 celebrated but unpopular statesman, who, though not 



