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great many of them near as large, with 

 noble {terns of a majeftic height. After 

 this it will gain an oblique view of the 

 grand front of the houfe, and wind up to it 

 in fuch a line, that the feet may never travel 

 in a direction that the eye has before com- 

 manded. 



Another approach from which the park 

 is feen to great advantage, is the lower 

 entrance from Rotberham, where the 

 jiew porter's lodge is building. From 

 hence the pyramid is feen upon the right, 

 riling from a noble fweep of wood : In 

 front the ruftic temple juft fhews its head 

 above a fpreading plantation in a pictu- 

 refque manner. On the left, along the 

 valley, winds the lake in that waving 

 line, which art ufes to imitate the rmeft 

 touches of nature : It is broken by bold 

 projecting clumps of wood upon the 

 banks, through which the water is in ibme 

 places feen with much elegance. At a 

 fliitance upon the banks of the water, 

 which is upwards of 200 yards wide, is 

 feen the octagon temple, in a fituation 

 fixed with fuch tafte as to leave little for 

 the imagination to fupply. On the other 

 fide, you look upon a great extent of park, 

 fcattered with trees in the moil: beautiful 

 manner imaginable, crowned with two vaft 

 vyoods, which here appear as one; and qn 



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