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ancient walls of red sand-stone ; towards the west we behold a 

 richly cultivated country, with hills projecting from the higher 

 mountains of Wales, which themselves rear their heads above 

 them, and in grotesque forms close the horizon. The country 

 has a truly imposing character. Under similar, but varied points 

 of view, we proceed on the grand approach, till we arrive at a 

 cross-road connecting the surrounding villages. This road 

 divides the park in two parts ; but far from injuring the general 

 effect, it has been sunk into an artificial rocky dell, to a depth of 

 twenty feet, over which the approach passes on a natural-like 

 vault of rock-work. The sides of this glen are inaccessible, and 

 the view of it from the approach forms an interesting feature in 

 the landscape. 



An open Gothic portal, highly enriched, now surprises the view 

 of the stranger, and prepares him for the vicinity and splendour 

 of the house. The park here displays a more ornamented 

 appearance ; the lawns are more extensive, and more neatly kept ; 

 the plantations are more select, and secured by iron fencing 

 against the depredations of the deer. At last we discover, 

 through a dark mass of wood, the house itself, in a style of 

 splendour and grandeur truly royal, and such as one would feel 

 almost inclined to call too arrogant for a private individual ( und 

 man fur einen privatmann fast zu ubermuthig nennen mochte). 

 The palace is built in the Gothic style, and all that wealth and 

 art can produce, is displayed in its exterior, and still more in its 

 interior." 



Mr. Lenne suggests that the royal residences round Berlin, 

 and especially those at Potsdam, might be united with the 

 capital something in the same way that Eaton Hall is with 

 Chester. 



As a native of the banks of the Rhine, he feels the want of 

 those vineyards and orchards which abound in his country ; 

 but above all things, he cannot reconcile himself to the extent 

 of our parks, kept up " for the nourishment of game instead 

 of human beings." He is particularly shocked at the parks of 

 Blenheim, Woburn, and Ashridge, in each of which, he says, 

 there are from two thousand to three thousand head of deer. 

 This "arrogance, extravagance, and egotism" of the English, 

 he "would be sorry to see imitated in Germany, farther than 

 in a very slight degree." He is convinced that if Kent had 

 been employed by German princes, instead of English lords, 

 he would have introduced the orchards which he, Mr. Lenne, 

 finds contrast so much better with cultivated fields than park 

 scenery. He hopes to give an example of this mixed style 

 of fruit and forest trees, in the neighbourhood of Berlin. 



The English style of landscape-gardening which prevailed 

 in the time of Kent, he considers as having degenerated into 

 a little manner; and as examples of this, he refers to Cashio- 

 bury and Bretton Hall, We see from this, and other parts 



