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 LETTER LXI. 



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Baron's Court, Oct. 7, 1813. 



A HE principal part of this morning was occu- 

 pied in driving round the grounds, and ex- 

 amining the plantations. The larches here are 

 remarkably fine trees j I have seldom seen any 

 larger, though the person who planted them 

 has been dead only a few years. A larch of 

 thirty-six years' growth only was sixty feet in 

 height ; at four and a half feet from the ground, 

 it measured six feet in circumference. I under- 

 stood that the evergreen shrubs had been ori- 

 ginally planted with the forest trees ; by which 

 means they become so established as to bear 

 cutting, and form a most beautiful underwood. 



At the extremity of the grounds is a small 

 lake, the boundary of which has been so well 

 managed by judicious planting, as to hide the 

 low boggy margin, and to exhibit the opposite 

 shore, which, being handsome and bold, with 

 the presence of the water, adds great beauty to 

 the place. 



