PART £« FOR A COUNTRY RESIDENCE. 66*9 



doors, to make the whole still more rural* and natural. In 

 extensive residences, that grand or rather sublime invention 

 of Mr. Repton's, of placing the family arms on " the milestones" 

 or on " stones with distances," and also appropriation by temples 

 and porticos may be very properly adopted; and when the 

 plan is finished, painted and lettered boards must be fixed 

 up in proper public places, warning vagrants to beware of 

 walking in the grounds, to take care of spring guns, &c. and 

 offering a very large reward to those who shall discover offen- 

 ders. Many other things may be done in a corresponding - 

 style with these, which it is not necessary to mention here, as 

 they will be understood from this specimen. 



4. A very common object in view, in choosing a situation for 

 a country residence, is to increase the circle of amuse- 

 ments. The chief thing requisite here is, to fix upon a good 

 neighbourhood where there are always a great number of 

 visiters. The grounds should be extensive, and, if possible, they 

 should in general be laid out in the fashionable taste, and every 

 beautiful, new, or proposed fashion should be adopted as soon as 

 developed : this is sure to attract company and admiration. 



5. Frequently, when a person of obscure birth has made an 

 immense fortune, he is desirous of laying the foundation of 



* See Bradley's Husbandry; also " The Connoisseur," by Mr. Town, 



