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the Thames, is very unkingly as well as incommodious. Though still unfinished, 
unfurnished, and u Pup ge as e kay probably ever remain, it presents to the eye 
an assemblage of tower and tur ts, forming a structure such as those in which 
Ariosto or Spencer дори рне ie pue detained by giants or enchanters. 
Sir Richard Phillips describes (1817) the interior (Morning Walk from 
London to Kew, pp. 380, 381). 
“Tn the western corner [of Kew Green] stood the building called Kew Palace, in 
which George III. ce many of the early years of his reign, and near which he 
began a new structure a few years before his confirmed malady, which I call the 
Bastile Palace, from its resemblance to that building, so obnoxious to freedom an 
to construct within it more than a series of large closets, boudoirs, and rooms 
oratories. works De have been че oar since the unhappy 
seclusion of the royal обет ап is improbable, — = this d 
that they will be renewed. The detent’ is ina ens the Thames, an 
the principal — within its view is the dirty town of eso on the opposite 
side of the ri 
Q. C. (p. 10) describes its destruction. 
“ The gothic реке ovs King George ПТ. began at the commencement of the 
century, was, after e years empty, useless, incompleted, decaying, sold 
by IV.to a Mic fer; materials. The demolition took place in 1828 or 
1829. On Saturday morning, December 8th, some injudicious removal of material 
was made by the workmen, and one of the eastern towers came саги to the 
grou че ight men were killed. . " noa s after part of a 
skelet as fou mbedded in the earth. The Кас having heard 
of mé: анаа, med the rest of the ids to be blown up." 
Simpson (pp. 28, 29) ion to imply that the Gothic Palace was 
commenced рг jd 
н — Sagn or the ‘Old TT as it was afterwards called, was taken down in 
work, but the b uilding was r finished intern „м nor was it ever inhabited by 
the King, and сч € death it was sold piecemeal by order of George IV., the last 
of its materials having been removed in 1827. The designs for the buildings were 
James Wyatt, the үэе architect.’ 
r W. —Ó in ы н Report for 1847, explains how the site was 
eite treate 
“ The private grounds of the Palace had been much neglected, especially that 
portion (about seven acres) on which His Majesty George the 3rd had built the 
shell of a larger palace. r the mp rye of this structure the groun va 
terrace 
entrance of the Pleasure а А new gate, from 
plain in style, but well adapted in ccordance with the old. palace, d been erect 
at the approach to the palace from the river." 
Simpson (pp. 9) 77) describes two remarkable trees which stand 
near the Palac 
“ Visitors at "6 are always anxious to вее two venerable trees near the Ferry, 
on the banks of the river, I mean the Elm and the Linden. The former is, or rather 
was, a most beautiful specimen of расчету vegetation; it was р by Queen 
Mary I. [on the Ordnance Map it is ealled Elizabeth’s Elm], an чо qn. blown down 
in 1844, the top having since been al into a kitchen table for Osborne House ; 
the trunk is still carefully көс by being -— ui I measures 29 feet in 
: Linden ot singular bes is of great t. 
Under this tree, it is said, most of the of George HL used to st and puse ir 
their youthful studies. а 
