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ragement of emerited and well-deserving seamen and mariners, for its CHAP, 

 glorious fabric and conveniences exceeding any in Europe dedicated to 

 that excellent purpose. To this also belongs a park, as there did to that 

 of Eltham. Nearer the metropolis yet are those of St. James's, Hyde-^ 

 park, and that sweet villa (as now built, planted, and embellished) of 

 Kensington, deserving a particular description ; and for all that can be 

 desirable of magnificence, Hampton-court, truly great, in a most beauti- 

 ful flat ; the palace, gardens, canal, walks, groves, and parks ; the sweet 

 and silent Thames gliding her silver streams to the triumphal Win- 

 sonian Tempe, raising its stately head, and which alone has in view an 

 hemisphere as far as eyes and telescopes can distinguish earth from hea- 

 ven ; thus from the keape, the terrace, parks, and forests, equalling, 

 nay exceeding, any thing Europe can boast of. 



Other there are sweet and delectable country-seats and villas of the no- 

 bless, rich and opulent citizens, (about our Augusta,) built and environed 

 with parks, paddocks, plantations, &:c. adapted to the country and rural 

 seats, dispersed through the whole nation, conspicuous not only for the 

 structure of their houses, built after the best rules of architecture, but for 

 situation, gardens, canals, walks, avenues, parks, forests, ponds, prospect 

 and vistas, groves, woods, and large plantations, and other the most 

 charming and delightful recesses, natural and artificial : but to enume- 

 rate and describe what were extraordinary in these and the rest, would 

 furnish volumes: for who has not either seen, admired, or heard of 



Audley-end, Althorp, Aukland, Allington, Ampthill, Astwell, Al- 

 dermaston ? 



Bolsover, Badminton, Brockly, Burleigh on the hill, and the other 

 Burleigh, Bocton, Buckthurst, Buckland, Belvoir, Blechington, Best- 

 wood, Broom-hall ? 



Castle-Rising, Castle-Ashby, Chatsworth, Charley, Cornberry, Cashio- 

 berry, Cobham, Cowdry, Caversham, Cranburn-park, Charlton, Copt- 

 hall, Claverton, famous for Sir W. Basset's vineyard, producing forty 

 hogsheads of wine yearly. Nor must I forget that of Deepden, in Surry, 

 planted by the honourable Charles Howard, lord of half the manor of 

 Darking. 



Drayton, Dorington-park, Dean? 



Eastwell, Euston, Ecleswold, Edscomb, Eston, Epping ? 



