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the fineness of its gardens. The parterre is encircled 

 with columns of yew ; the wilderness is very neat ; 

 and from the whole there is a delicious prospect. 



Terragle. 



Three miles from Dumfries I saw Terragle, the 

 paternal seat of the unhappy Maxwell, Earl of Niths- 

 dale, who was taken prisoner at Preston, and made his 

 escape out of the Tower. It consists of a large oval 

 court, in which are very stately apartments and large 

 gardens, suitable to the grandeur of so noble a family.* 



Drumlanrig. 



The hanging gardens cut out of the rock down to 

 the river-side, with waterworks and grottos, do every 

 way answer the great genius of W., Duke of Queens- 

 berry. 



Traquair. 



This palace, built by the Earl of Traquair, who 

 was Lord High Treasurer and Viceroy of Scotland 

 in the reign of Charles I., a great favourite of Arch- 

 bishop Laud and promoter of his schemes, is a very 

 large noble pile of building of free-stone, situated in a 

 valley on the banks of the Tweed, in the midst of a 



* Some interesting remarks on the old gardens of Scotland, may 

 be seen on page 81 of the Encyclopaedia, of Gardening. 



