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THE VILLA GAEDENEE. 



front of which is 318 



represented in fig. 

 318.; or when, pass- 

 ing through a walk 

 covered with trellis- 

 work, in the flower- 

 garden, to the lawn 

 front, we look down 

 the declivity to the 

 water, at the foot of 

 the rising woods on 

 the opposite bank, as 

 shown in fig. 319. 

 Kenwood is one of 

 those places of which 

 but a very imperfect 

 idea can be given by 

 a ground plan, and 

 little more than some 

 notion of the inequal- 

 ities of the surface, 

 by geometrical sec- 

 tions of the ground, 

 and sectional views. 

 The beauty of the 

 oak trees, and the 

 simple and sylvan 

 grandeur of the 

 scene, can only be 

 represented by land- 

 scapes on a tolerably 

 large scale ; or best 

 of all by a panoramic 

 view, taken from a 

 central point in the 

 lowest part of the 

 grounds. 



500. The ground 

 plan {fig. 320.) is 

 taken from a pub- 

 lished map of the 

 parish of St. Pancras, 

 in which the pro- 

 perty lies, with some 

 additions, trees, &c., 

 from memory. The 

 sections {figs. 321. to 325.) are also from memory; but the views {figs. 317. 

 to 319. and figs. 326. to 328.) are faithful copies from nature. The sectional 

 views are far from doing justice to the beauty of the scenery, but these, 

 together with the views, may serve to convey to the reader some general ideas 



