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yards of the house :" this his brother " succeeded in doing, by digging down the mountain, and flinging it 

 into a rapid stream, which carried away the sand, filled up the moat, and levelled that noble area where 

 now the garden and fountain is." 



Groom' s-bridge near Tunbridge, " a pretty melancholy place." 



1654. Ladi/ Brook's garden at Hackney, " one of the neatest and most celebrated in England.*" 

 Caversham, Lord Craven's," Berkshire. " Goodly woods ffeUing by rebels." 



Cashiobury {fig. 29. ), Lord Essex, Hertfordshire. " No man has been more industrious than this noble 



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