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 uncommon fplrit, he has either made or 

 greatly improved above 20 miles of road; 

 a noble example ! * 



* While at Sivinton^ I took the opportunity 

 to view Mr. Aijlabies two famous places, Hackfall 

 and Studley. They are both ornamented grounds, 

 but in a different ilile-, both fine and much 

 deferving the attention of a traveller. 



Studley Park is fituated in die midft of an 

 aoreeable country, about four miles from Ripon. 

 The houfe is a very good one, and contains feveral 

 fpacious apartments well fitted up. But the 

 pleafure -grounds are chiefly confidered. 



The firfl object we were fhewn to, is the 

 banqueting-houfe ; a handfome apartment, con- 

 taining a well proportioned room for dining, and 

 a fleeping one with a lofa within a fcreen of very 

 llo;ht eleo;ant carving-. In the former is a ftatue 

 of Venus of Medicis. At one corner of the lawn 

 (laid out in the form of a coffin), in front of this 

 building. Hands an ionic dome temple in ruins^ 

 from which the views are various and pleafing •, 

 there are two of water, partly furrounded with 

 wood ; another up to a gothic tower, upon a fine 

 fifing ground : A fourth down upon a bafon of 

 water, with a portico on the backs i befidcs 

 others. 



Advancing up the hill to the right, we came 

 to a bench which looked down upon a double 

 cafcade, one falling to appearance from out a 

 cavern of rock, in a jufc taile, into a canal, which 

 forms a little beneath you another fall, and then 

 is lofl, to the left, behind v/ood. 



Winding 



