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You look down on an exquifite lawn 

 thinly fcattered with trees, on one fide of 

 which is the houfe ; around the whole a 

 vafl range of inclofures : to the right you 

 catch a moft beautiful fmall green hill* 

 with a clump of trees upon it. This view 

 is noble indeed ! 



From hence you turn to the right into 

 a grove, and prefently come to a view 

 moll delicious ! At your feet is fpread 

 forth a lawn of the fineft verdure ; a cool 

 fequeftred hollow, furrounded with thick 

 wood ; above which, in front, you catch 

 nomfo?i\ Seat, in the very fpot of ele- 

 gance itfelf J on a fweet little green hill, 

 the top of which juft fhews itfelf above 

 the trees, and half difclofes the temple al- 

 moft embofom'd in v/ood. A little to the 

 left of it, and higher, is the Grecian portico* 

 finely back'd with a fpreading grove. Over 

 that, on a noble fweep of irregular hill, 

 rifes the obcliflc, back'd with a vaft range 

 of wood, in the nobleft ftile : Tlie variety 

 of ground fine, and the whole of it orna- 

 mented with furprizing tafte as well as 

 magnificence. A better afil^mbiage of un- 

 conneded objeds managed moft fliillfully 

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