4 2 DESCRIPTION of WILTON. 
monly known by the name of Pembroke’s arcadia, from its 
being addrefs’d to his filler the conntefs of Pembroke. One of 
the rooms has the pannels painted with the federal mod: re- 
markable Rories in that romance ; but it is now old, and was 
badly executed at firR. I think, madam, the chara&er which 
is given of the author, fets him fo very high above common 
mortals, if I was to read any romance, it Ihould be this : and 
yet I am told he has follow’d the Italian poets, and introdu- 
ced very Rrange and abfurd Rights of fancy. 
The grand apartment, or dining-room, is very noble indeed, 
being 60 feet long, 30 broad, and 30 high. The bulls which 
are ranged oppofite the windows, through the whole length, 
have a very fine efifed. There is a great number of pictures, 
in the houfe, but fome of them are fo bad, they feem to have 
no right to hang there ; that which is moil diflinguifhed is the 
family piece in this grand apartment, painted by Vandyke : it 
is 20 feet long, and 1 2 high, containing thirteen figures as big 
as the life. You will never forget the noble ideas with which 
your mind fwell’d, when you was furprized at the fight of this 
pidure, in which the painter has reached fo near to nature, that 
one almoft imagines it is real life. In this room is a great deal 
of rich furniture, the particulars of which I cannot recoiled. 
We were told, that the prefent young lord intends to build a 
library, or to convert one of his apartments to that ufe ; in the 
mean while the books deep in their huge chefts, of which a large 
room was full. 
It 
