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3, Fire-place to the vinery at 10, in the kitchen-garden 9. 

 4 4, Brook. 5 5, Public road. 6, Kitchen-court. 



7, Concealed path to gentlemen's water-closet. 



8, Plantation of evergreens. 9, Kitchen-garden. 

 10, Vinery. 11, House servants' water-closet. 

 12, Servants' entrance. 



Though it cannot be said that the arrangement of the offices of this 

 house is so good as it would be, if they were placed on each side of a 

 straight passage ; yet it will not be denied, that these offices include every 

 thing that is desirable for comfort and even luxury. The chief difficulty 

 which occurs to a stranger, in looking at the plan, is, to discover how sev- 

 eral of the rooms which compose the offices are lighted ; and this, it may 

 be necessary to state, is chiefly effected from the roof; a mode which, in 

 the case of some rooms, such as a butler's pantry, china-closet, plate-room, 

 etc., is to be preferred ; but which in most cases it is desirable to avoid. 



The three windows to the three principal rooms being on the same side 

 of the house, and adjoining each other, must necessarily have a sameness 

 of view ; but the quiet character intended to be produced by the idea of a 

 cottage by a road side, may be supposed to account for circumstances of 

 this kind, and for various others. 



The following are the details of the farmyard, garden offices, and hot- 

 houses, as exhibited 'mfg, 6 : — 



1, Rustic alcove, forming a recess under a thatched roof, which covers 

 the space from the green-house, 3, to the houses or yards, 70, 71, and 72. 

 This rustic alcove has the floor paved with small pebbles, and the sides 

 and ceiling lined with young fir-wood, with the bark on. There is a dis- 

 guised door on the right, which leads to 69, a house for grinding-mills 

 and other machines ; and on the left, which leads to 2, the ship-room. In 

 the upper part of the central compartment, in a square recess fronting 

 the entrance, is a white marble statue of the Indian god Gaudama, or 

 Gaudmia. Three Elizabethan benches, each as long as one of the sides 

 of the alcove, are placed so as to disguise the doors. The external ap- 

 pearance of this alcove is shown in fig. 7. 



2, Ship-room, paved with slate, and with the walls finished in stucco, and 

 ceilintr with beams painted like oak, to which are hung Indian spears, 

 and other curiosities, and serving to contain models of ships and vessels 

 of various sorts during winter. These are placed on the pond in the 



