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the other fide of the honfe, upon the river, 

 is a cottage, with a fhrubbery, prettily laid 

 ,out 4 the houfe commands an extenfive view, 

 bounded by the Wicklow mountains. It 

 confifts of feveral noble aoartments. On the 

 firft floor is a beautiful gallery, 80 feet long, 

 elegantly fitted up. 



June 27th, left Lord Harcourt's, and hav- 

 ing received an invitation from the Duke of 

 Leinfter, paffed through Mr.Conolly's grounds 

 to his Grace's feat at Cartown, the park ranks 

 among the fineft in Ireland. It is a vaft 

 lawn, which waves over gentle hills, fur- 

 rounded by plantations of great extent, and 

 which break and divide in places, fo as to give 

 much variety. A large but gentle vale winds 

 through the whole, in the bottom of which a 

 fmall itream has been enlarged into a fine 

 river, which throws a chearfulnefs through 

 niaft of the fcenes : over it a handfome ftone- 

 bridge. There is a great variety on the banks 

 of this vale; part of it confifts of mild and 

 gentle Hopes, part fteep banks of thick wood; 

 in another place they are formed into a large 

 fhrubbery, very elegantly laid out, and dreff- 

 ed in the higheil; order, with a cottage, the 

 fcenery about which is uncommonly pleaf- 

 ing: and farther on, this vale takes a ftronger 

 character, having a rocky ban!; on one fide, 

 and fteep flopes fcattered irregularly, with 

 wood on the other. On one of *he moil: rif- 

 ing grounds in the park is a tower, from the 



top. 



