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every fide fine profpe&s of cultivated hills 



fpreading one beyond another. This 



approach crofTes towards the lodge, where 

 is a fmall but very neat room of prints on 

 blue paper, and furnifhed with a harpfi- 

 chord, for varying the fcene of the molt 

 elegant of all amufements : The view 

 from the windows is full upon the water, 

 then the hills rifing boldly from the more, 

 and terminated with a magnificent range 

 of wood. The road winds from hence 

 around the hill on which the rurUc temple 

 ftands, and breaks at once upon the houfe, 

 in a manner not only ftrikingly judicious 

 in itfelf, but finely contrafied to the other 

 approaches from which it is gradually 

 feen. A part of this defign was the cut- 

 ting away a large part of that hill, which 

 projected too much before the front of 

 the houfe ; a vafl defign, but not yet 

 completed, although his lordfhip has 

 already moved from it upwards of one 

 hundred and forty thoufand fquare yards 

 of earth. An immenfe work, which re- 

 quired the fpirit of a Rockingham to un- 

 dertake. 



Another point of view I would recom- 

 mend to your attention, if ever you fee this 

 truly magnificent place, is the fouthern 

 one at the top of the hill, from whence 

 you look down upon Rotherham^ and rJ 1 



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