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a very neat elegant building, commanding a. 

 various and very beautirui view. You look 

 full upon a bank, of wood, finely diveriified 

 with, objects. To the left you fee a cower, riling 

 out of hanging wood ; — next to that a building, 

 peeping over trees in a pleaJlng ftile ; over this 

 tilt pjincd dome temple, in the very point of tafle, 

 moft cxquifitely fituated; fweetly pkafing and 



fnftuie^que. In another part of the wot^, 



the obelifk, with a front and back-grotsnd 

 of wood. Befides thefe objecfts, you fee, at the 

 fame time, a fmall building, ainioll beneath yo'J» 

 on the bank of the lake; — the houfe "rrd p'aa- 



rations adjoining in the pais:. the Kuman 



monument and Lui,icfe temple, two buildings 

 among other plantations in the park j — a fmall 

 ipct in the oppofite w<-lks, called die DiaiLawn-^ 

 ■with feveral other objects that throw a great 

 variety over the fcene, and render it upon the 

 whole truly beautiful. 



Driving from hence through the park, the 

 riding leads by the edge of a vail woody precipice, 

 which bounds a winding valley with a rapid 

 ftrcam in it ; the views of which, among flvieps 

 of wood and romantic precipice-s, have a noble 

 effect. • The river forms two cafcades that much 

 enliven the fcenes. 



Upon the edge of this bank of wood ftarxls 

 the Roman roonument, the model of that eredled 

 to the Horatii and Curiatii\ you look down 

 from it, into a winding valley, at a confiderable 

 depth, through which the river takes its bending 

 courfe -, at one end it is loft moft beautifully in 

 the hanging woods -, and at the other under a wall 

 of rocks : At your feet it forms another cafcade, 

 which has a fine efFeft : In front you command 



hanging 



