124 ^/ ^^^^^ ^^d extenfive Gardening. 



when you arrive at very grand and magnl* 

 ficent Steps, cut out in the Form of a half 

 Circle. 



When you have afcended thefe Terras's, 

 the firft Thing which offers to your Sight, 

 is a large Stone Statue on a handfomc 

 Pedeftal, near a Wildernefs, and a fine 

 Fountain with plenty of Fifh, on Ground 

 of a more exalted Elevation than the Top 

 of the Houfe 5 from thence you proceed to 

 two Noble Terras-Walks, each above a 

 quarter of a Mile in Length, one for the 

 moft Part enclosed with a very lofty Hedge, 

 kept fhorn, and a Wall with Fruit-Trees, 

 making it a folitary Walk, and the other o* 

 pen and expos'd^ but planted on one Side 

 with round headed Dwarf Elms, and Firs, 

 and Iron Rails on the other : From this Ter- 

 ras you have a profped from you of about 

 eight or ten Miles over a rich and fertile 

 Vale, which, by Variety of Woods, Groves, 

 and Meadows, appears like a Rural Garden 

 to this ftateiy Manfion. Here you have in 

 View the Avenue to the Houfe, which is full 

 of ftateiy Plantations, and to which you 

 have a regular Defcent or Slope planted with 

 Dwarf Fruit-Trees. On the other Side of 

 the grand Avenue are two very large Ponds, 

 almoft cover'd with Water-Fowl, and a no- 

 ble Dutch Fountain between, having fmall 



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