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both of this and of Worcester Park, adjoyning, were 

 fell'd by those destructive and avaricious rebells in the 

 late warr, which defac'd one of the stateliest seates his 

 Majesty had. 



To Alburie to see how that garden proceeded, 

 which I found exactly don to the designe and plot I 

 had made, with the crypta through the mountaine in 

 the park, 30 perches in length. Such a Pausilippe l 

 is no where in England besides. The canall was now 

 digging, and the vineyard planted. 



His house (Lord Arlington's at Euston) is a very 

 noble pile, consisting of 4 pavillions after the French, 

 beside a body of a large house, and tho' not built 

 altogether, but forra'd of additions to an old house 

 (purchas'd by his Lordship of one Sir T. Rookwood) 

 yet with a vast expence made not onely capable and 

 roomesome, but very magnificent and commodious, as 

 well within as without, nor lesse splendidly furnish'd. 

 The stayre-case is very elegant, the garden handsome, 

 the canall beautifull, but the soile drie, barren and 



1 A word adopted by Mr. Evelyn for a subterranean 

 passage, from the famous grotto of Pausylippo, at Naples. 



