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of the place is very pleafmg. In order to fee 

 it to advantage, I would advife a traveller to 

 take the ride which Lord Tyrone carried me. 

 Faffed through the deer park wood of old oaks, 

 fpread over the fide of a bold hill, and of fuch 

 an extent, that the fcene is a truly foreft one, 

 without any other boundary in view than what 

 the {terns of trees offer from mere extent, re- 

 tiring one behind another till they thicken fo 

 much to the eye, under the fliade of their 

 fpreading tops, as to form a djftant wall of 

 wood. This is a fort of fcene not common in 

 Ireland, it is a great extent alone that will give 

 it. Frpm -this Ijill enter an evergreen planta- 

 tion,' a fcene which winds up the Deer-park 

 hijl, ancj opens on to the brow of it,' which 

 commands a moft noble view indeed. The 

 lawns around the houfe appear at one's feet, 

 at the bottom of a great declivity of wood, al- 

 moft every where furrounded by plantations. 

 The hills on the oppoiite fide of the vale againft 

 the houfe^ confift of a large lawn in {he center of 

 the two woods, that to the right of an immenfe 

 extent, which waves over a mountain fide, in 

 the fineft manner imaginable, and lead the eye 

 to the fcenery on the left, which is a beauti- 

 ful vale of rich inclofures, of feveral miles 

 extent, with the Sure making one great reacli 

 through it^ "and a bold bend juft before it en- 

 ters a gap in the hills towards Waterford, and 

 winds behind them ; to the right you loolc 

 over a large plain, backed by the great Cum- 

 meragh mountains. For a diftinc~l extent of 

 yiew, the parts of which are all of a com- 

 manding 



