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 more beautiful; It is, in one word, a lump 

 of rock, trees, fhrubs, grafs, and flowers; 

 not of any extent, but a bold more ; behind 

 the wood are houfes for the water fowl, and 

 here they make their nefts. There is every 

 fort of them, and an equal variety in the 

 poultry. In England I have feen many ar- 

 tificial fpots made with the fame view as 

 this, but I never beheld any thing executed 

 in fo mafterly a ftile j all ornament of the 

 lighter gayer fort is kept down, nothing 

 appears that is not in unifon with the great 

 outline of the fcene; every thing is here 

 that you wifh for or think of, and nothing 

 that you could wifh away : in a word, it is 

 a mod perfedt work, that mews the tafte of 

 the excellent lady, who defigned it, in the 

 cleared manner imaginable. 



Having fpent four days in the moft agree- 

 able manner, with this uncommon family, 

 J took my leave; but I cannot quit them, 

 here, without adding a word or two more 

 in praife of what I can never fufficiently 

 commend. M. de la Place, of all the many 

 Frenchmen I have known, has the moft 

 happy art of uniting characters extremely 

 different. He is the plain, honeft, open, 



