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landscape-gardening. The walks here are covered with debris 

 from the lead and copper mines, and those which have been laid 

 with this material twenty years ago never bear a weed, not even 

 moss; but, on those which have been covered more recently, weeds 

 grow the second year, because the miners ai*e now more careful 

 in separating the ore. At the lodge we observed a fine tree 

 of Crataegus orientalis covered with fruit, and in the flower- 

 garden a female Menispermum enriched with its round black 

 berries. At the house are some fine magnolias and large 

 myrtles. The head kitchen-gardener has been here fifty years, 

 and is eighty years old. We walked to a mausoleum placed on 

 what is called Mount Ararat, in which one of the proprietors of 

 this place is said to be interred in full dress; but for this story 

 we must refer to the History of Cornwall. 



Sept. I&. — Callington to W hitf or d House, Endsleigh, and Ta- 

 vistock. Th« Golden, Lion Ian at Callington is a good and 

 cheap house, and it can supply several books ; there is, besides, 

 a bookseller's shop in the town. 



Whitford House ; Sir William Call, Bart- The grounds are 

 beautifully varied and well-wooded, but the house is placed on a 

 spot of no mark or likelihood, and the approach to it shows the 

 whole of the kept ground before arriving at the front door. It 

 is capable of immense improvement at a moderate expense, 



Endsleigh ; the Duke of Bedford. At the entrance there is 

 the largest, most ornamental, and best kept lodge-garden we 

 have yet seen in Devonshire, and which may be described as 

 characteristic of all the lodges to the Duke of Bedford's resi- 

 dences. Proceeding along the approach, we pass another 

 splendid cottage-garden, the low wooden fence beautifully 

 covered with different-coloured nasturtiums varied by dahlias. 

 This cottage is occupied by Mr. Forester, who has the general 

 charge of the demesne. 



A little beyond this cottage we obtain the first glance at the 

 Tamar, here a clear and rapid river, passing through richly 

 wooded banks and- fertile meadows. " The cottage on the banks 

 of the Tamar" is not now thatched, as represented in Repton's 

 works, and as it was when he laid out the grounds, but slated j 

 and, though it still maintains the character of a cottage, it is, 

 without doubt, a very commodious dwelling. Mr. Repton's 

 description of the situation and his improvements, as printed in 

 our edition of his works, p. 586 — 597., is calculated to give such 

 a clear idea of the place, that, as we have at present little time, 

 we gladly refer to it. We admire Endsleigh exceedingly, for its 

 natural beauties, and for the very high keeping displayed in all 

 that we saw. Over a fountain in the stable yard is the following 

 inscription : — " Endsleigh cottage was built, and a residence 

 created in this sequestered valley, by John Duke of Bedford ; the 



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