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of a verdant slope, and encompassed by the Garden and 

 Park.— The road turns to the right to the New Inn, where 

 Travellers are accommodated who come to see the place, 

 and to the entrance into the Gardens by which Strangers 

 are admitted.— The road to the House leads through the 

 Arch, (in which are dwelling rooms for the keeper,) into 

 the Park, and is beautifully diversified with hill, valley, 

 lawn, river, and a perpetual change of scene, arising from 

 the numerous buildings intermixed with wood, and " bosomed 

 high in tufted trees," which strike the eye with a most 



picturesque and ever-varying magnificence. At the south 



entrance of the Gardens are 



TWO PAVILLIONS, 



supported by Doric Pillars, originally designed by Kent, and 

 altered by Signor Borra, Architect to the late King of 

 Sardinia. 



The view is very striking at first entrance, of the House, 

 crowning the brow of the opposite hill, and rising from 

 the woods which bound the two extremities of it ; of the 

 Gothic building placed on the summit of another hill on the 

 right hand, sloping to two rivers, which meeting in one 

 stream surround an Island, and form a bay or small lake 

 in front of the House. On the left hand is 



A CASCADE, 



which falls in three sheets from the upper water into the 

 Lake, on the bank of which is 



