264 



features are among the noblest in the 

 kingdom. In front, the sea appears in 

 view, embayed amidst islands and pro- 

 montories, and backed by mountains ; be- 

 tween the house and the shore, there is a 

 quick, though not an abrupt descent of 

 ground, on which a judicious improver 

 might have planted different masses of 

 wood, groups, and single trees, more or 

 less dispersed or connected together, with 

 lawns and glades between them, gently 

 leading the eye among their intricacies to 

 the shore. This would have formed a rich 

 and varied foreground to the magnificent 

 distance; and in the approach to the sea- 

 side, which ever way you took, would have 

 broken that distance, and have formed in 

 conjunction with it, a number of new and 

 beautiful compositions. One of Mr. Brown's 

 successors has thought differently ; and this 

 uncommon display of scenery is disgraced 

 by a belt. 



I do not remember the place in its un- 

 improved state ; but I was told that there 



