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well concealed vegetable and fruit garden, complete 

 the modern appliances of a fine country seat. 



Jlanipton, the residence of John Ridgley, Esq., is 

 situated about nine miles north of Baltimore, and be- 

 longs more properly to the early edition of this work, 

 than to this supplement, which is intended simply 

 to describe what has been done within ten years. 

 It has been truly said of Hampton that it expresses 

 more grandeur than any other place in America. 



It belongs to the stately order of places almost unknown 

 here at the North, situated as it is in the midst of a do- 

 main of six thousand acres. The facade of the house is 

 one hundred and eighty feet in length, with offices at- 

 taqhed, erected soon after the Revolution, in 1783. 



The entrance hall, of great width and dignity, passes 

 the visitor to the south front, where is a terraced gar- 

 den of great antiquity, with clipped cedar hedges of 

 most venerable appearance. The formal terraces of 

 exquisitely kept grass, the long rows of superb lemon 

 and orange trees, with the adjacent orangerie and the 

 foreign air of the house, quite disturb ones ideas of 

 republican America. 



Clifton Park, near Baltimore, the residence of John 

 Hopkins, Esq., is unquestionably one of the most elabo- 

 rate places in this country. We remember no other, 

 where in addition to a fine and costly house, there is so 

 large a range of glass, with such diversified and extensive 

 grounds ; the varieties of trees, shrubs, walks, lawns, 

 large pieces of ornamental water, containing numerous 

 islands planted with masses of rhododendrons and ever- 

 green shrubs, and connected by appropriate and tasteful 

 bridges, are all, certainly, much in advance of any other 

 place we know. 



Lyndhurst, the country seat of Reverdy Johnson, 

 Esq., has a new and very striking house, with a most 

 extended and superb view. 



Carroll Manor is another fine old place, like Hampton, 



