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in England." The site is an elevated platform, with a sud- 

 den bend in the river immediately below it, and a long, 

 winding stretch of river extending up the valley to the 

 east, the valley being closed in at its head by the highest of 

 the Yorkshire hills — Ingleborough. To the southeast and 

 south there is a most picturesque and varied hill partially 

 clothed with woods and always presenting the most striking 

 diversity of color. On the north side, within the estate, is a 

 wooded eminence scarred with rock and broken by an old 

 quarry. And the place has had the advantage, in the dis- 

 posal of its woods, of artists no less distinguished than Mr. 

 Gilpin and Sir John Nasmyth. 



The entrance is in the bay of a curve in the high road and 

 the lodge is an attractive design in the Gothic style. It 

 is proposed to erect low walls between the piers shown in 

 the wing fences, and put a low iron fence composed of two 

 or three strong horizontal bars with only the necessary 

 uprights at intervals, on the top of these walls. The drive 

 which is only between 300 and 400 yards long will be kept 

 entirely within the enclosure of the dressed grounds. 



Fig. 67 shows the entrance to Halton Grange, near Run- 

 corn, the residence of Thomas Johnson, Esq. The lodge here 

 being in the Italian character and the walls about the gates 

 being treated in a more elaborate architectural manner, there 

 is a propriety in making them concave to the high road, a 

 device which always gives emphasis to the entrance to a 

 place, and also adds dignity unless the space be badly treated. 

 The drive, too, being much longer, and there being another 

 gate at the point where the pleasure grounds are entered, the 

 plantations have to be fenced in separately as shown by the 

 dotted lines, and the wire fence on the left includes the small 

 grass plot around the lodge. This entrance is close to the 

 boundary of the property, that being the side on which Run- 



