SURVEYS, REPORTS, &c. 



No. I. 



The Elms near the Approach Gate to Powerscourt 

 Mansion. 



These trees, on both sides of the public road, 

 chiefly elms, must be allowed at all hands do give a 

 very dignified, sublimely grand, ancient, and vene- 

 rable appearance to the approach to the mansion. 

 Notwithstanding their unprotected situation, being 

 close on the public road, and the little care or 

 attention that has been paid to the rearing of them, 

 they have raised their magnificent heads to the sky, 

 and bid defiance to the storms and tempests that 

 have within their lifetime overturned and reduced 

 to a heap of ruins the strongest and most stately edi- 

 fices, built by human ingenuity and art, and speak 

 in that beautiful language of inspiration, " man is 

 as a shadow that departed, compared with us.'' I am 

 sorry to say that it bespeaks a degree of carelessness 



