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entrance from Rot her bam; this approach, 

 his Lordfhip is at preient laying out ; much 

 of the road, <£yc. is done, and when com- 

 pleted it will be a continued landfcape, 

 as beautiful as can be conceived. At the 

 very entrance of the park, the profpect is 

 delicious: In front you look full upon a 

 noble range of hills, dales, lakes and woods, 

 the houle magnificently fituated in the 

 center of the whole. The eye naturally 

 falls into the valley before you, through 

 which the water winds in a noble ftile : 

 On the opponte fide, is a vaft fweep of 

 rifing flopes, finely fcattered with trees, 

 up to the houfe, which is here feen dii- 

 tindtly, and ftands in the point of gran- 

 deur from whence it feems to command 

 all the furrounding country. The woods 

 it retching away above, below, and to the 

 right and left with inconceivable magni- 

 ficence; from the pyramid on one fide, 

 which rifes from the center of a great 

 wood, quite around to your left hand, 

 where they join one of above an hundred 

 acres hanging on the fide of a vaft hill, 

 and forming altogether an amphitheatri- 

 cal profpetl:, the beauties of which are 

 much eafier imagined than defcribed. In 

 one place the ruftic temple crowns the 

 point of a waving hill, and in another the 

 ionic one appears with a liglitncfs that de- 

 corates 



