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but who afterwards accompanied the Earl of Portland, 

 King William's ambassador ; but to Evelyn, Addison, 

 Dr. Lister, Kent, when he accompanied Lord Bur- 

 lington through France to Italy ; to the Earl of Cork 

 and Orrery (the translator of Pliny's Letters), whose 

 gardens at Marston, and at Caledon, and whose letters 

 from Italy, all shew the eagerness with which he must 

 have viewed the gardens of France, when passing 

 through the provinces towards Florence ; to Ray, 

 Lady M. W. Montague, Bolingbroke, Peterborough, 

 Smollet, John WilHs, John Home (when he met Mr. 

 Sterne, or designed to meet him, at Toulouse), to 

 Gray, Walpole, R. P. Knight, who must have passed 

 through the rich provinces of France, as, in his work 

 on Taste, he speaks of " terraces and borders inter- 

 mixed with vines and flowers, (as I have seen them in 

 Italian villas, and in some old English gardens in the 

 same style), where the mixture of splendour, richness, 

 'and neatness, was beautiful and pleasing in the high- 

 est degree ;" and to the lately deceased Sir U. Price, 

 who must also have passed through France, to view 

 (with the eagerness with which he did view) the rich 

 and magnificently decorated gardens of Italy, " aided 

 with the splendour and magnificence of art," their 

 ballustrades, their fountains, basons, vases and statues, 

 and which he dwells on in his Essays with the same 

 enthusiasm as when he there contemplated the works 

 of Titian, Paul Veronese, and other great masters. 

 Indeed, those pages where he regrets the demolition 

 of many of our old English gardens, and when he 

 dwells on the probability that even Raphael, Giulio 



