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elegant effect is produced by having two fronts : one, the 

 entrance front, with the porch or portico nearest the road, 

 and the other, the riverfront, facing the water. The beauty 

 uf the whole is often surprisingly enhanced by this arrange- 

 ment, for the visitor, after passing by the Approach through 

 a considerable portion of the grounds, with perhaps but 

 slight and partial glimpses of the river, is most agreeably 

 surprised on entering the house, and looking from the 

 drawing-room windows of the other front, to behold another 

 beautiful scene totally different from the last, enriched and 

 ennobled by the wide-spread sheet of water before him. 

 Much of the effect produced by this agreeable surprise 

 from the interior, it will readily be seen, would be lost, if 

 the stranger had already driven round and alighted on the 

 river front. 



The Drive is a variety of road rarely seen among us, yet 

 which may be made a very agreeable feature in some of 

 our country residences, at a small expense. It is intended 

 for exercise more secluded than that upon the public road, 

 and to show the interesting portions of the place from the 

 carriage, or on horseback. Of course it can only be formed 

 upon places of considerable extent ; but it enhances the 

 enjoyment of such places very highly, in the estimation of 

 those who are fond of equestrian exercises. It generally 

 commences where the approach terminates, viz. near the 

 house : and from thence, proceeds in the same easy curvi- 

 linear manner through various parts of the grounds, farm 

 or estate. Sometimes it sweeps through the pleasure 

 grounds, and returns along the very beach of the rivei, 

 beneath the fine overhanging foUage of its projecting bank ; 

 sometimes it proceeds towards some favorite point of 

 view, or interesting spot on the landscape ; or at others it 



