176 kalm's England. 



other forms, all sorts of trees* but that which principally 

 excites the admiration of the spectator is the magnificent 

 large building, which is all of hewn stone, and more 

 resembles a royal palace than a private man's property, 

 without as well as within. 



In it there were very many rooms furnished in the 

 most costly way, and this so that one room was not like 

 another. Magnificent paintings, extensive tapestries, 

 Tapeter, costly tables of many kinds of marble, large 

 crystal lustres, ljus-kronor, gilded chairs, tables, ceilings, 

 tak, &c, various kinds of statuary, Bildhuggeri, and 

 what varieties the East and West Indies can supply, 

 were here displayed before the eyes. We saw tapestries, 

 Tapeter, or more correctly, a kind of screen, skarm, 

 of crosswise-laid glass threads, glastra, of several 

 colours, and picture-scenes, which resembled fine cloths, 

 tyger, and were said to have come from the East Indies. 

 It was affirmed that My Lord Tilney had laid out so 

 much on all this that he has barely as much left that he 

 can in some sort support his state, or maintain, halla 

 vid magt, what he has here erected. 



This was evident both with the house and garden, 

 which had not been fully completed, because the owner's 

 resources did not allow him to incur further expense* 



* The house was Wanstead Manor. 



In Magna Britannia, &c, Lond., 1720, 4to, Vol. I., p. 653, twenty-eight 

 years before Kalm's visit, legitur : " Sir Richard Child, the son of Sir Josiah, 

 now enjoys it, and has by his great expense so much improved it, though a 

 princely habitation before, that the world itself cannot parallel it for buildings 

 and fine gardens." The Beauties of England and Wales, 1803, 8vo. , 

 E. Brayley and J. Britton, Vol. V., p. 466, adds: "Sir Richard, afterwards 

 created Earl Tylney, erected the present Wanstead House in the year 

 1715." "The principal front is 260 feet in length. The whole building is 

 cased in Portland stone; its depth is between 70 and 80 feet." "Colin 

 Campbell was the architect." There is a view of the house opposite p. 466 

 ( P. 467. ) ' ' The river Roding, which is formed into canals," &c. A Topographical 



