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superb, it is only what we naturally expect. It 

 is the chain of ideas properly carried on, and 

 gradually lost. My remarks regard only such 

 houses as may be rich indeed and elegant, but 

 have nothing in them of superior magnificence. 



One ornament of this kind I should be inclined 

 to allow, and that is a handsome gate at the 

 entrance of the park ; but it should be pro- 

 portioned in richness and elegance to the house, 

 and should also correspond with it in style. It 

 should raise the first impression o£ what you are 

 to expect. Warwick Castle requires a mode of 

 entrance very different from Lord Soarsdale's at 

 Kedleston, and Burleigh House very different 

 from both. The park gate of Sion House is 

 certamly elegant ; but it raises the idea of a style 

 of architecture which you must drop when you 

 arrive at the house. 



The road, also, through the park should bear 

 the same proportion. It should be spacious, or 

 moderate, like the house it approaches. Let it 

 wind, but let it not take any deviation which is 

 not well accounted for. To have the convenience 

 of winding along a valley, or passing a commo- 



