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or of him who resorts to the country for a sojourn 

 of a few months in the year, and unconnected with 

 agricultural pursuits, other considerations move him in 

 its construction than those which control the agri- 

 cultural proprietor alone. If he retire at the distance 

 of some miles from the city, and out of the immediate 

 neighborhood of a village, the man who intends build- 

 ing a park residence will appropriate a sufficient area 

 of ground to accommodate his wants in the way of 

 pasturage for his horses, cattle, sheep, and poultry, 

 (for without them his establishment must be incom- 

 plete,) and combine within his own possessions a suf- 

 ficiency of wood — and water, if possible — 'to give a 

 completeness to the domain within his own apparent 

 boundaries. These accomplished, the house becomes 

 the attractive and paramount object of his attention. 



Although not perhaps exactly within the province 

 of these notes to give a homily on the financial policy 

 of house-building in the country, yet for the edification 

 of such as look. to country residence as a recreation, or 

 a temporary retirement only, it may not be inappro- 

 priate to suggest some reflections when about to invest 

 a portion of their capital in an object so fruitful of 

 pleasurable anticipations. There is probably no de- 

 scription of real estate which is so fitful in its occupation, 

 and so temporary in the tenure, as the country places 

 belonging to residents in our cities. The reasons lead- 

 ing to this might be given at length, but they will 

 readily occur to any one who chooses to give the sub- 

 ject a deliberate thought. Some people buy a place 

 and retire into the country without the knowledge of 

 what country life really is — without any true apprecia- 

 tion of its pleasures or its sacrifices — without reflection 



