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LETTER V. 



WENT WORTH houfe, the palace 

 of the Marquis of Rockingham, is 

 fituated between Rot her ham and Barnjley y 

 in the midft of a very beautiful country, 

 and in a park that is one of the mod 

 exquifite fpots in the world. It confifts of 

 an irregular quadrangle, inclofing three 

 courts, with two grand fronts : The prin- 

 cipal one to the park extends in a line 

 upwards of 600 feet, forming a center 

 and two wings. Nothing in architecture 

 can be finer than this center, which ex- 

 tends 19 windows. In the middle, a noble 

 portico projects 20 feet, and is 60 long 

 in the area ; fix magnificent Corinthian 

 pillars fupport it in front, and one at 

 each end: This portico is lightnefs itfelf; 

 the projection is bold, and when viewed 

 obliquely from one fide, admits the light 

 through the pillars at the ends, which has 

 a moft happy effect, and adds greatly 

 to the lightnefs of the edifice. The bafes 

 of the pillars reft on pedeftals, in a line 

 upon the nifties, which by fome critics 

 has been objected to, by afferting that the 

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