THE PLEASURE GROUND. 209 



THE EVERCxREENS. 



The annexed Plate represents a bird's eye view, 

 taken from the top of Woburn Church Steeple, of 

 the fore-ground of about 100 acres of richly wooded 

 Evergreens, planted by John, Duke of Bedford, 

 in 1742. The inequality and variation of sur- 

 face, together with the different species of trees 

 and shrubs with which it is decorated, and the 

 extensive sheet of water in the face of it, render 

 this one of the most interesting and picturesque 

 landscapes in the county ; and one that is very 

 generally acknowledged to be but seldom equalled 

 by any thing of the kind that is to be met with 

 elsewhere. For the different views of this land- 

 scape, we are indebted to the late Mr. Repton, who 

 suggested various improvements, and superintended 

 the execution with that taste and judgment which 

 he was universally admitted to possess, and which 

 caused him to be distinguished as the very first 

 English Landscape Gardener of his day. 



While we have here, on the summit of the rising 

 ground, several thousand full grown Scotch Firs, 

 many of them measuring 65 feet in height, and 7 to 

 8 feet in circumference, we have, also, these en- 

 vironed with fine specimens of the Spruce Fir ; 

 and the Pinus Pinaster has, in several instances, 

 attained the height of 70 feet, and upwards of 12 

 feet in girth, at seven feet from the ground. There 

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