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is already so unfortunately circumstanced, I 

 should recommend the trying of every pos- 

 sible method to remedy the evil. I have suc- 

 ceeded in several instances with houses of 

 various size and character : and I think there 

 are comparatively but few that might not be 

 thus improved. Examples of this improve- 

 ment will be found at Hawarden Castle, near 

 Chester; Castleton, near Carlisle; and at Wick- 

 ham Park, in the vicinity of Croydon. And 

 even where circumstances may not admit of 

 the entrance being changed, the approach 

 may frequently be so conducted as to become 

 less exposed to the living-rooms ; sometimes 

 by taking it round the back of the house, 

 instead of crossing the front of it ; sometimes 

 by merely altering the back road a consider- 

 able improvement may be effected. The 

 wrong situation of the entrance is the only 

 blot in the beautiful scenery at Marston, in 

 Somersetshire ; but I am not without hope 

 of seeing it corrected. A great improvement 

 has been effected at Hell's Park in the same 

 neighbourhood, by removing the road to the 

 stables, which passed the library windows, 

 and contracted the shrubbery within a limit 

 incompatible with the size of the mansion. 



