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above the turnpike road, and instead of being placed 

 quite close to it, as is commonly done, and rendered 

 nearly invisible by shrubs and creepers, it is thrown 

 back into the park about fifty feet off the road. Across 

 the coach road, and at right angles with it, runs an open 

 railing in front, terminating in a hedge, which at some 

 distance falls easily into the general line of the road 

 fences ; leaving on the outside of the gate an open 

 space or grass-plot, a hundred and four yards in length, 

 and comprising about the fifth part of an acre. This 

 space is kept with the scythe, and is separated from the 

 turnpike road by a low rough fence of larch stakes, some- 

 thing less than two feet high, of which the bark is allowed 

 to remain upon the stakes. On the sides of the coach 

 road, through the whole breadth of the bounding line of 

 plantation, run two grassy margins of the park, about five- 

 and-thirty feet broad, which come down to the gate, and 

 seem to form a part of the external grass-plot, being 

 separated from it only by the open railing, so that the 

 sheep browse up to the gate itself. These two margins 

 within, and the grass-plot without, are completely wooded 

 with grove or standard trees, from twenty-five to thirty- 

 five feet high, scattered in an irregular manner, eighteen 

 or twenty feet assunder, with copse or underwood in the 

 intervals, which last are from four to six feet in height. 



Thus the open but woody character of the park is 

 continuous, and extends the whole way to the public 

 road ; while the traveller, in passing along, catches here 

 and there glimpses of the lodge, with the light foliage of 

 the trees playing on the porch and other parts of the 

 building. Beyond the limit of these park-like margins, 

 all the adjoining space, to the extent of more than three 

 quarters of an acre, is massed up with grove trees and 

 underwood in the closest manner; and the whole forms 



