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trees ; and as the clouds drift across the blue sky, the 

 broadest and most brilliant masses of light break 

 magically from under the towering arch and the dark 

 coronet of trees. . . . You must imagine the river at a 

 great depth below the castle plain, and not visible 

 from the point I have been describing. The first 

 sight of it you catch is from the castle windows, 

 together with the noble park, whose lines of wood 

 blend on every side with the horizon. You ascend 

 from the court to the dwelling rooms by only a few 

 steps, first through a passage, and thence into a hall, 

 on each side of which extend the entertaining rooms 

 in an unbroken line of three hundred and forty feet. 

 Although almost 'de plein pied' with the court, 

 these rooms are more than fifty feet above the Avon, 

 which flows on the other side. From eight to four- 

 teen feet of thickness of wall forms, in each window 

 recess, a complete closet, with the most beautiful 

 varied view over the river, wildly foaming below, 

 and farther on flowing through the park in soft wind- 

 ings till lost in the dim distance. " 



Note how the location of this castle fits in, adapts 

 itself to the surrounding scenery and dominates and 

 seems to own it all. It also shows how important the 

 site of the building and how the most careful study 

 should be given to its placing. 



It may be truly said that the landscape can be just 

 as well fitted to the building by a proper display of 

 landscape-gardening ability as the building fitted to the 



