BUCKINGHAM PALACE, LONDON 



and we are able from various sources, plans, 

 engravings, and incidental notices in books, to 

 form a tolerably accurate notion of the aspect 

 the Park assumed under these operations. 



At the end nearest Whitehall was a line 

 of buildings occupying nearly the site of the pre- 

 sent Government buildings. Wallingford House 

 stood on the site of the Admiralty ; the old 

 Horse Guards, Tennis-yard, Cockpit, and other 

 appendages of Whitehall on the sites of the 

 present Horse Guards, Treasury, and offices of 

 the Secretaries of State. 



From Wallingford House towards Pall Mall 

 were the Spring Gardens, opening into the Park. 

 The south wall of the King's Garden extended 

 in a line with the part of it which still remains 

 behind the Palace of St. James's, as far as the 

 west end of Carlton Terrace. Marlborough 

 House was built on a part of the garden at a 

 subsequent period. 



The Duke of Buckingham, in a letter to the 

 Earl of Shrewsbury, in which he describes this 

 part of the Park as serving the purpose of an 

 avenue to his newly erected mansion, gives us 

 an idea of its appearance in the beginning of the 



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