телу outlay enriched the place, the remains of the ancient monastery of 
a arge and embattled Gothic e метрах d and the e numerous houses still 
аа < to the hamlet—we have now not a vestige left.” 
_Brown got the credit of the AA Evans (p. 30) quotes from 
Mason's “ Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers "(1773) :— 
* Come brine prolifie Art, and with thee bri ing 
The charms that ne from thy exhaustless spring ; 
ichmond come, for see untutor'd Brown 
Destroys — wonder that were hy . 
Lo! from h n ground the peasant cmm 
Has rudely cry and level'd Merlin’s Cav 
Knock'd down the waxen wizard, Aue his d 
and; 
A 
Of Stephen Пейж nd good QUEEN CAROLINE ! ” 
The augmentation of the property stated by Rocque must have con- 
sisted of land to the north. Richmond сшде рт extended to the 
At the extreme northern apex of the property the uM as stated by 
и had а house which in Roeque's plan is called the * Queen's 
House at Kew." It was almost next door to the present Kew Palace, 
being only separated бош its out-buildings by the end of Love Lane. 
There is a tradition that it belonged to Sir Richard Levett, who also 
purchased the present palace in 169 97. 
he dogs on the piers at the present entrance to the palace were 
stated by the late John Smith to have been placed there by Decimus 
Burton in 1847, and to have come tá the gateway to Levett's house. 
Pini is iii the * гривен Royals Hous 
MERLIN’s CAVE. 
Among the buildings с by George III. were two which not- 
withstanding their trivial character have enjoyed a reputation which a 
good deal exeeeds their intrinsic interest. ‘These were the Hermitage 
and Merlin’s Cave. The latter was а sort of thatched summer-house 
of wood and plaster with queer conical bee-hive roofs. It is digest 
the * Keeper’s House" of Rocque’s map, ani was near river. 
The name has been transferred on the Ordnance map to a ery with 
a small stone house and a sort of underground cellar which existed till 
t of 
recently near the 'l'emperate House in a remote part of the grounds. 
From a letter of John Smith it appears that this was constructed by the 
sons of George Ш. with the help of a l bricklayer Having become 
о grown and obsolete, the materials were used in 1882 for the con- 
prim of the к Garden in the Вашае 
site of Ormond House is not certainly known, but it was appar- 
sity.: in wet se ee part of the Old Deer Park near the Queen’s 
Cottage G 
Evans ач 127) says (1824) :— 
a djoining the Old Park are now connected with Kew 
ic E de Pk 4 e г Met А Palace of George the Second, a оч 
spot with his Queen Caroline of rra celebrity. But this encient structure 
having been demolished, another was begun, even to the turning of the arches, but 
M 
never completed. The Gat en with erlin’s Cave and other decorations 
ished, an о ry, devoted to science, raises its dome and dignifies 
