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Some injudicious Perfons like wife make an 

 Exception to the Situation of this Seat, not 

 only for iis being low and moift 5 but on Ac- 

 count of its being furrounded on one Side 

 with Hills, fo as not to be difcern'd 'till you 

 come juft upon it 5 what ever Fault this may 

 be in the Efteem of the Generality of Man- 

 kind, I (hall not pretend to determine 5 but 

 I have this to offer in its Favour, that on your 

 Approach to the Houfe from the Hills, you 

 are at once entertained with an infinite Va- 

 riety of beautiful Profpeds, the furprizing 

 Pleafure whereof would have been in a great 

 Meafure loft by a remote anticipating View. 

 And from the other Side of the Houfe, a 

 fine Vale of a confiderable Extent is dif- 

 cover'd even from the firft Floor, notwith- 

 ftanding its being low with Refped to the 

 Northern Side, encompafs'd with afpiring 

 Mounts. 



But as it is not my Bufinefs to engage 

 in a particular Defence of a Gentleman's 

 Choice of Situation, (wherein Fancy always 

 prefides with the greateft of Men) I (hall 

 proceed to my particular Defcription 5 and 

 herein firft begin tvith the Green-houfe. To 

 pifs by the Magnificence of the Seat, the 

 Green-houfe adjoining to it, is, I think, one 

 of the moft be;iutiful and commodious Piles 



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