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It is totally different in character from the Wilderness on the north, 

 and is a nearly level or slightly undulating surface, well covered with 

 fine Oak, Chestnut, and other timber trees. Through it is laid out 

 the DRIVE ; a sylvan route as agreeable for exercise in the carriage, 

 or on horseback, as the " Wilderness," or the " Morning Walk," is 

 for a ramble on foot. It adds no small additional charm to a coun- 

 try place in the eyes of many persons, this secluded and perfectly 

 private drive, entirely within its own limits. 



Though MONTGOMERY PLACE itself is old, yet a spirit ever new 

 directs the improvements carried on within it. Among those more 

 worthy of note, we gladly mention an arboretum, just commenced 

 on a fine site in the pleasure-grounds, set apart and thoroughly pre- 

 pared for the purpose. Here a scientific arrangement of all the most 

 beautiful hardy trees and shrubs, will interest the student, who looks 

 upon the vegetable kingdom .with a more curious eye than the ordi- 

 nary observer. 



The whole extent of the private roads and walks, within the pre- 

 cincts of MONTGOMERY PLACE, is between Jive and six miles. The 

 remarkably natural beauty which it embraces, has been elicited and 

 heightened every where, in a tasteful and judicious manner. There 

 are numberless lessons here for the landscape gardener ; there are 

 an hundred points that will delight the artist ; there are meditative 

 walks and a thousand suggestive aspects of nature for the poet ; and 

 the man of the world, engaged in a feverish pursuit of its gold and 

 its glitter, may here taste something of the beauty and refinement 

 of rural life in its highest aspect, and be able afterwards understand- 

 ingly to wish that 



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" One fair asylum from the world he knew, 

 One chosen seat, that charms the various view. 

 Who boasts of more, (believe the serious strain,) 

 Sighs for a home, and sighs, alas ! in vain. 

 Thro' each he roves, the tenant of a day, 

 And with the swallow wings the year away." 



ROGEBS. 



