THE "LANDSCAPE-GARDEN." 109 



architectural shams throughout. These gardens 

 were begun by Bridgman, " Begun," Whately says, 

 " when regularity was in fashion ; and the original 

 boundary is still preserved on account of its magnifi- 

 cence, for round the whole circuit, of between three 

 and four miles, is carried a very broad gravel-walk, 

 planted with rows of trees, and open either to the 

 park or the country ; a deep sunk-fence attends it 

 all the way, and comprehends a space of near 400 

 acres. But in the interior spaces of the garden 

 few traces of regularity appear ; where it yet 

 remains in the plantations it is generally dis- 

 guised ; every symptom almost of formality is 

 obliterated from the ground ; and an octagon basin 

 at the bottom is now converted into an irregular 

 piece of water, which receives on one hand two 

 beautiful streams, and falls on the other down a 

 cascade into a lake." 



And then follows a list of sham architectural 

 features that are combined with sham views and 

 prospects to match. "The whole space is divided 

 into a number of scenes, each distinguished with 

 taste and fancy ; and the changes are so frequent, so 

 sudden and complete, the transitions so artfully con- 

 ducted, that the ideas are never continued or repeated 

 to satiety." In the front of the house two elegant 

 Doric pavilions. On the brow of some rising 

 grounds a Corinthian arch. On a little knoll an 

 open Ionic rotunda an Egyptian pyramid stands on 

 its brow; the Queen's Pillar in a recess on the 

 descent, the King's Pillar elsewhere ; all the three 



