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Bushey Park. 



That charming seat of the late Lord Hallifax, the 

 Maecenas of England, the great patron of learning and 

 learned men. As he had a good taste in everything, 

 you may believe there is nothing wanting to the em- 

 bellishment of this place; the cascade is reckoned 

 a masterpiece of its kind, and the whole worth the 

 curiosity of a traveller. 



In two hours from Hampton Court you come to 

 Twickenham, a village remarkable for its abundance of 

 curious seats, of which that of Boucher, the famous 

 gamester, would pass in Italy for a delicate palace. 

 The Earl of Mar, the Earl of Strafford, the Earl 

 of Bradford, Lord Brooke, Lord Dunbar, and 

 Lady Falkland, have each their pretty villas in this 

 parish ; but I think that of Secretary Johnstoun, for 

 the elegancy and largeness of his gardens, his terrace 

 on the river, and the situation of his house, makes 

 much the brightest figure here: his house may 

 be more properly called a plantation, being in the 

 middle betwixt his parterre, his kitchen garden, his 

 fruit garden, and his pleasure garden and wilder- 

 ness. The house is exactly after the model of the 

 country seats in Lombardy, being of two galleries, 

 with rooms going off on each side. The gallery on the 

 ground floor makes a hall fronting the pleasure garden, 



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