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most exquisitely naiJ'd and train'd, far better than I 

 ever noted elsewhere. 



There are many good pictures, especialy of Van- 

 dyke's, in both these houses, and some few statues and 

 small busts in the latter. 



From thence we went to Kew, to visite Sir Henry 

 Capell's, whose orangerie and myrtelum are most 

 beautifull and perfectly well kept. He was contriving 

 very high palisados of reeds to shade his oranges 

 during the summer, and painting those reeds in oil. 



13 July, 1700. I went to Marden, which was 

 originally a barren warren bought by Sir Robert Clayton, 

 who built there a pretty house, and made such alteration 

 by planting not only an infinite store of the best fruite, 

 but so chang'd the natural situation of the hill, valleys 

 and solitary mountains about it, that it rather represented 

 some foreign country which would produce spon- 

 taneously pines, firs, cypress, yew, hollv, and juniper ; 

 they were come to their perfect growth, with walks, 

 mazes, &c. amongst them, and were preserv'd with 

 the utmost care, so that I who had seene it some 

 yeares before in its naked and barren condition, was 

 in admiration of it. 



