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very fine, and leads into the green-house, at the end of 

 which is a hall to eate in, and the conservatory some 

 hundred feete long, adorn'd with mapps, as the other 

 side is with the heads of Caesars ill cut in alabaster : 

 over head are several apartments for my Lord, Lady, 

 and Dutchesse, with kitchens and other offices below in 

 a lesser form, with lodgings for servants, all distinct, for 

 them to retire to when they please and would be in 

 private and have no communication with the palace, 

 which he tells me he will wholly resign to his sonn-in- 

 law and daughter, that charming young creature. The 

 canall running under my lady's dressing-room chamber 

 window is full of carps and foule which come and are 

 fed there. The cascade at the end of the canall turnes 

 a corne-mill, which provides the family, and raises 

 water for the fountaines and offices. To passe this 

 canal into the opposite meadows, Sir Sam. Moreland 

 has invented a screw-bridge, which being turn'd with 

 a key lands you 50 foote distant at the entrance of an 

 ascending walke of trees, a mile in length, as tis also 

 on the front into the park, of 4 rows of ash-trees, and 

 reaches to the park-pale, which is 9 miles in compass, 

 and the best for riding and meeting the game that 

 I ever saw. 



