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Remarks on Mr. Billingtori 's Plan for 



Ground Plan of the principal Entrance from Leeds, on an erilarged~\Scale. 

 1, Entrance Portico. 2, Orangery. 3, 4, Green-houses. 5, 6, Conservatories. 



I consider that the approach from the Otley road to the 

 gardens would produce a much better effect, were it either 

 straight or in one gentle curve than as it at present appears in 



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Elevation of the principal Entrance from Leeds. 



the plan ; and the entrance lodge, which I think chaste and 

 pretty, ought to be so placed as to be approached in the most 

 direct manner, and so as to be distinctly viewed at some dis- 

 tance from the above road ; but, as it is proposed in the plan, 

 the entrance could only be very imperfectly seen until near to 

 it ; and its importance would become much lessened by the in- 

 direct and unmeaning zigzag manner by which it is approached. 

 The site for the stoves I consider bad, inasmuch as it does 

 not afford sufficient space for the intended building, and at the 

 same time admit of plantations and lawns at each end, which an 



