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by eight or less ; rockeries and ferneries, and artificial 

 ruins of castles or abbeys of smaller dimensions still. 



In passing through the galleries and gardens of 

 Chatsworth you will recognise the originals of many 

 works of art which command the admiration of the 

 world. The most familiar to the American visitor will 

 probably be the great painting of the Bolton Abbey 

 Scene, the engravings of which are so numerous and 

 admired on both sides of the Atlantic. But there is 

 the original of a greater work, which has made the 

 wonder of the age. It is the original of the Great 

 Crystal Palace of 1851, and the mother of all the 

 palaces of the same structure which have been or will 

 be erected in time past or to come. Here it diadems 

 at Chatsworth the choice plants and flowers of all the 

 tropics ; presenting a model which needed only expan- 

 sion, and some modifications, to furnish the reproduction 

 that delighted the world in Hyde Park, in 1851. 



I was pleasantly impressed with one feature of the 

 economy that ruled at Chatsworth. Although there 

 were between one and two thousand deer flecking the 

 park, it was utilised to the pasturage of humbler and 

 more useful animals. Over one hundred poor people's 

 cows were feeding demurely over its vast extent, even 

 to the gilded gates of the palace. They are charged 

 only 2 for the season ; which is very moderate, even 



