AMERICAN ESTATES AND GARDENS 



is paneled, with white beams and yellow centers. It opens on to an enclosed porch, lined with 

 brick, with an enclosed bay window beyond a triple archway, both portions forming a part of 

 the series of porches on the water-front of the house. 



The billiard-room is on the opposite side of the hall. The woodwork is once more white, 

 but the walls are green, and the ceiling has but three large panels, instead of the many small 

 ones which characterize the other rooms. The porch without looks on to a small formal garden 

 in the center of the lawn, containing a sun-dial and two large marble vases. 



The house stands so close to the edge of the cliff that there is no space for a garden ; but 

 the broad steps of the central portico descend on to a green slope upheld by a wall supporting 

 a balustrade. This is interrupted in the center by steps, at the base of which stand marble lions. 

 The terrace wall and balustrade are continued at right angles to the end of the dining-room. 

 The water of the bay is almost directly below, so sheer is the cliff and so abrupt the descent. 

 Quite in the distance are the gray walls of Fort Schuyler. across Long Island Sound. 



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