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Fig. 33 . A Fender artistically united to the Chimney Ja?/ibs- 



the course of the Clyde near the two places where the two gates 

 to the park would be formed. The expense would, no doubt, be 

 great ; but we are not considering the expense, but only what 

 would be suitable for the grounds of such palace, if they had 

 been laid out in the days of Louis XIV. The approach from 

 the gates through the park to the palace we would, of course, 

 have a straight avenue 200 or 300 feet wide, with a triple row of 

 trees on each side, at 100 ft. distance in the row, so as to allow 

 them to take the magnificent forms which may be seen in the 

 remains of the old lime tree avenue at Culross Abbey. The 

 house we would surround on three sides with an extensive archi- 

 tectural flower-garden, including a large architectural con- 

 servatory, in the form of a Grecian temple, attached to the 

 mansion by an arcade or colonnade ; and from this garden an 

 archway should lead over the carriage road (which would become 

 necessary to connect the avenue from Glasgow with the avenue 

 from Lanark) to pleasure-ground scenery and the kitchen- 

 garden, to be situated between the palace and the village. Per- 

 haps, the arrangement of the public road and the turning of the 

 river, might require the palace to be seen obliquely, instead of 

 at right angles, as is usual in such cases : but to this we should 

 not object ; for we consider the proposed change in the public 

 road essential to any grand arrangement in either the ancient or 

 the modern style. A palace ought to command not merely the 



