112 AN AMERICAN FARMER IX ENGLAND. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Visit to Eaton Hall The Largest Arch in the World The Outer Park 

 Backwoods Farming The Deer Park The Hall The Parterre 

 The Lawn The Fruit Garden Stables. 



TN the afternoon we walked to Eaton Park. 

 * Probably there is no object 01" art that Americans of cultiva- 

 ted taste more generally long to see in Europe, than an English 

 park. What artist, so noble, has often been my thought, as he 

 who, with far-reaching conception of beauty and designing power, 

 sketches the outline, writes the colors, and directs the shadows of 

 a picture so great that Nature shall be employed upon it for gen- 

 erations, before the work he has arranged for her shall realize his 

 intentions. 



Eaton Hall and Park is one of the seats of the Marquis of 

 Westminster, a very wealthy nobleman, who has lately been 

 named " Lord High Chamberlain to her Majesty," a kind of 

 state-housekeeper or steward, I take it an office which Punch, 

 and a common report of a niggardly disposition in his private 

 affairs, deems him particularly well fitted for. 



We left town by the new, or Grosvenor bridge a simple, 

 grand, and every way excellent work, crossing the Dee by a 

 single arch, which we are told is the largest in the world. It is 



