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of our way to see Hall Barn, Mr. Waller's house a London Box, 

 if I may so call a house of 7 windows every way. He was gone a 

 hunting, so we did not go into the house, which promised nothing 

 extraordinary, but we spent a full hour and half in viewing the 

 gardens, which you will think are fine, when I tell you they 

 put us in mind of those at Versailles. He has 80 acres in garden 



HALL BARN. 



and wood, but the last is so managed as justly to be counted 

 part of the former. From the parterre you have terraces and 

 gravelled walks that lead up to and quite thro' the wood, in 

 which several lesser ones cross the principal one, of different 

 breadths, but all well gravelled and for the most part green 

 sodded on the sides. The wood consists of tall beech trees and 



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