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head, would be very proper for such a cabinet. The seat 
surrounds it on the outside, over which is a thatched roof or 
veranda, supported on rustic pillars formed of the trunks of 
saplings, with the bark attached. 
[Fig. 85. Rustic covered Seat.] 
Many of the English country places abound with admira- 
ble specimens of rustic work in their parks and pleasure- 
grounds. White Knight’s, in particular, a residence of the 
Duke of Marlborough has a number of beautiful structures 
of this kind. Figure 85, is a view of a round seat with 
thatched roof, in that demesne. Three or four rustic pillars 
support the architrave, and the whole of the exterior and 
interior, (being first formed of frame- work,) is covered with 
straight branches of the maple and larch. The seat on the 
interior, looks upon a fine prospect - and the seat on the 
back of the exterior, fronts the park. 
There is no limit to the variety of forms and patterns in 
which these rustic seats, arbours, summer-houses, etc., can be 
constructed by an artist of some fancy and ingenuity. After 
the frame- work of the structure is formed of posts and rough 
boards, if small straight rods about an inch in diameter, of 
hazel, white birch, maple, etc., are selected in sufficient quan- 
