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through which runs a small stream. The house, which is 

 small, but with very extensive offices, is placed on the margin 

 of the park, and in the lowest part of the grounds. A worse 

 situation could hardly have been fixed upon in the whole 300 

 acres. The planting in the park has been done in what is 

 considered the English style; but the formal clumps, which are 

 conspicuous in the plan {Jig. 27.), show that the designer 



has considered that style any thing but an imitation of nature. 

 The small stream of water [a) is made to spread out into a 

 pond (6), and it is crossed by numerous bridges, under which 

 are cascades [c c c). The only parts of the grounds which 

 are tolerable, and which create in the mind any allusion to 

 natural scenery, are, a flat bottom, varied by spruce firs {d) ; 



