LIFE OF MYTTON. 



Oswestry* to Ellesmere — distant three miles from 

 the former town and five from the latter. Being 

 situated on a flat, the domain is deprived of some 

 of the advantages the extremely beautiful country 

 by which it is surrounded affords, but still the to7it 

 ensemble is good. In the front of the mansion is 

 a lawn, of about sixty acres of prettily diversified 

 grass-land, and behind it is a tastily-laid-out flower- 

 garden, contiguous to a fine tract of meadow land, 

 separated from it by a deeply sunken fence ; and 

 a noble sheet of water, with the old family chapel 

 at the head of it, gives a good finish to the land- 

 scape. When I say that the oak is the weed of 

 that part of our island, I scarcely need add that, 

 in a domain of such antiquity as Halston, it is — • 

 I fear I must write was — to be seen in its full 

 majesty of form ; and no estate in the county 

 could produce finer oaks than those which adorned 

 the Halston woods. I can, indeed, speak to the 

 fact of one which was cut down, about eight years 

 back, containing ten tons of timber, without top or 



• There is now, of course, a railway running through Oswestry, which 

 is a first-class station on the Welsh Coast line. 



