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proach of so unmeaning an object. To effect this nothing 

 but wood was wanting, as the ground round the building to 

 some extent was in a favourable state, and had been trenched 

 some time before, and manured to a potatoe-crop. 



Tlie lodge stands on a gentle swell, somewhat elevated 

 above the turnpike road, and, instead of being placed quite 

 close to it, as is commonly done, and rendered neady invisi- 

 ble by shrubs and creepers, it is thrown back into the park 

 about fifty feet off the road. Across the coach-road, and at 

 right-angles with it, runs an open railing in front, terminat- 

 ing in a hedge, which, at some distance, falls easily into the 

 general line of the road-fences ; leaving, on the outside of 

 the gate, an open space or grass-plot, an hvmdred-and-four 

 yards in length, and comprising about the fifth part of an 

 acre. This space is kept with the sythe, and is separated 

 from the turnpike road by a low rough fence of larch stakes 

 something less than two feet high, of which the bark is 

 allowed to remain upon the stakes. On the sides of the 

 coach-road, through the whole breadth of the bounding line 

 of plantation, run two grassy margins of the park, about 

 five-and-thirty feet broad, which come down to the gate, and 

 seem to form a part of the external grass-plot, being sepa 

 rated from it only by the open railing, so that the sheep 

 browse up to the gate itself. These two margins within, 

 and the grass-plot without, are completely wooded with grove 

 or standard trees, from twenty-five to thirty -five feet high, 

 scattered in an irregular manner, eighteen or twenty feet 

 asunder, with copse or underwood in the intervals, which 

 last are from four to six feet in height. 



Thus, the open but woody character of the park is con- 

 tinuous, and extends the whole way to the public road ; 

 while the traveller, in passing along, catches here and there 

 glimpses of the lodge, with the light foilage of the trees 

 playing on the porch, and other parts of the building. Be- 

 yond the limit of these park-like margins, all the adjoining 



