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3, Fireplace to the vinery at 10, in the kitchen-garden 9. 

 4 4, Brook. 5 5, Public road. 6, Kitchen-court. 



7, Concealed path to gentlemen's water-closet. 



8, Plantation of evergreens. 9, Kitchen-garden. 

 10, Vinery. 11, House servants' water-closet. 

 12, Servants' entrance. 



Though it cannot be said that the arrangement of the offices 

 of this house is so good as it would be, if they were placed on 

 each side of a straight passage ; yet it will not be denied, that 

 these offices include every thing that is desirable for comfort and 

 even luxury. The chief difficulty which occurs to a stranger, in 

 looking at the plan, is, to discover how several of the rooms 

 which compose the offices are lighted ; and this, it may be 

 necessary to state, is chiefly effected from the roof; a mode 

 which, in the case of some rooms, such as a butler's pantry, china- 

 closet, plate-room, &c, is to be preferred ; but which in most 

 cases it is desirable to avoid. 



The three windows to the three principal rooms being on the 

 same side of the house, and adjoining each other, must neces- 

 sarily have a sameness of view; but the quiet character intended 

 to be produced by the idea of a cottage by a road side, may be 

 supposed to account for circumstances of this kind, and for 

 various others. 



The following are the details of the farmyard, garden offices, 

 and hot-houses, as exhibited in Jig. 159. : — 



1, Rustic alcove, forming a recess under a thatched roof, which 

 covers the space from the green-house, 3, to the houses or 

 yards, 70, 71, and 72. This rustic alcove has the floor paved 

 with small pebbles, and the sides and ceiling lined with young 

 fir- wood, with the bark on. There is a disguised door on 

 the right, which leads to 69, a house for grinding-mills and 

 other machines ; and on the left, which leads to 2, the ship- 

 room. In the upper part of the central compartment, in a 

 square recess fronting the entrance, is a white marble statue 

 of the Indian god Gaudama, or Gaudmia. Three Elizabethan 

 benches, each as long as one of the sides of the alcove, 

 are placed so as to disguise the doors. The external appear- 

 ance of this alcove is shown in Jig. 160. 



2, Ship-room, paved with slate, and with the walls finished in 

 stucco, and ceiling with beams painted like oak, to which are 

 hung Indian spears, and other curiosities, and serving to con- 

 tain models of ships and vessels of various sorts during 

 winter. These are placed on the pond in the summer season ; 

 square-rigged vessels at fixed anchorage, and the fore-and-aft- 

 rigged ones, whose sails traverse, such as schooners, cutters, 

 and coasting vessels, with cables of lengths to allow of their 

 sailing without touching the edges of the pond ; and these 



