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instance of the former mode. There the surface consists of one 

 large valley, surrounded by a varied chain of hills, which are 

 almost entirely covered with wood. The valley, which contains 

 upwards of two thousand acres, is partly under aration, and 

 partly in lawn and park. The former part of it is joined and 

 connected to the clothed hills by wooded dingles, orchards, 

 and trees in the hedge-rows ; and the latter part, comprizing 

 the park, lawn, and mansion, is united to them by thickets con- 

 taining the gardens and offices, by numbers of groups connect- 

 ing the mansion with these thickets, and by other wood in esses 

 fringing the margins of rills, or encircling little lakes and con- 

 necting them with the rest of the parts so as to form a complete 

 whole. 



The happy manner in which beauty and utility are combined 

 in this disposition of wood is admirable ; particularly near the 

 mansion, where the offices and gardens are so connected as, 

 with comparatively very few trees, to prod ace the general effect 

 of massiveness and grandeur, and, when examined, so much 

 intricacy and variety, that on a first view of the place no stran- 

 ger would expect to find, besides all the necessary appendages, 

 a beautiful flower-garden, conservatory, winter garden, and 

 aviary, all within less than a minute's walk of the drawing-room. 



Luton Park, Kimbolton, Beverley, Rainham Hall, Althorpe Park, Exton Park, 

 Enmore, Ickworth, Hurst Park, Margan Park. See also all those places referred 

 to by Mr. Repton as illustrative of his " Observations on Landscape Gardening." 



