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birds, which are kept alive in winter by 

 means of hot walls at the back of the 

 building; the front is open net-work in 

 compartments. In one part of the wood 

 is an octagon temple in a fmall lawn ; 

 And the walk winds in another place over 

 a bridge of rock-work, which is thrown 

 over a fmall water thickly furrounded with 

 trees. 



Upon coming out of this wood the ob- 

 jects all receive a variation at once; the 

 plantations bear in different directions, 

 but continue their noble appearance; for 

 your eye rifes over a fine bank of wood 

 to the Ionic temple, which here feems 

 dropt by the hand of Grace in the very 

 fpot where Tafte herfelf would wifh it to 

 be (een. 



The road from hence is to wind over the 

 hill, and take a flanting courfe down to- 

 wards the octagon temple; a very elegant 

 little building, fvveetly fituated in the val- 

 ley, commanding the bends of fhore among 

 the groves, and the hanging woods which 

 crown the furrounding hills. Not far 

 from this temple, a magnificent bridge is 

 to be thrown over the water, and the road 

 then to be traced through another wood, 

 which is full of a great number of the 

 rnoft venerable oaks in England; one of 

 which is 19 feet in circumference ; and a 

 S 4 great 



