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main roads are bordered by houses for some miles from town, so as almost 
to resemble streets, there are tracts which lie between the main roads, 
and quite near town, which have undergone little or no change in the 
nature of their occupation for several, and apparently many, generations ; 
at all events, not since the days of Queen Elizabeth. The tracts of 
country to which we allude are in pasture or meadow, with crooked ir- 
regular hedges, numerous stiles and footpaths, and occasional houses by 
the roadsides ; the farms characterized by large hay-barns. Scenery of 
this kind is never seen by the citizen who goes to his country seat along 
the public road, in his family carriage or in a stage-coach ; and it is ac- 
cordingly only known to pedestrians, and such as are not afraid of driving 
their horses over rough roads, or meeting wagons or hay-carts in narrow 
lanes. The road through the Green Lanes to Enfield is an excellent 
turnpike road, always in a good state, with occasional villas near Bour 
Farm and Palmer’s Green ; and near Enfield, at Forty Hill, there is a 
handsome church, built and endowed by Mr. Myers, opposite to his park, 
which is filled with large and handsome trees. Afterwards it passes the 
celebrated park of Theobalds, near where formerly stood a royal palace, 
the favourite residence of James I., and winds in the most agreeable and 
picturesque manner under the shade of overhanging trees. Having made 
several turns, it leads to a lane with a brook which runs parallel to the 
road, a foot-bridge across which forms the entrance to Mr. Harrison’s 
cottage, as exhibited in the view Fig. 1. 
The ground occupied by Mr. Harrison’s cottage and gardens is about 
seven acres, exclusive of two adjoining grass fields. The grounds lie 
entirely on one side of the house, as shown in the plan, Fig. 13, in pp. 
476, 477. The surface of the whole is flat, and nothing is seen in the 
horizon in any direction but distant trees. The beauties of the place, to 
a stranger at his first glance, appear of the quiet and melancholy kind, as 
shown in the Figs. 2, 3 ; the one looking to the right from the drawing- 
room window and the other to the left : but, upon a nearer examination 
by a person conversant with the subjects of botany and gardening, and 
knowing in what rural comfort consists, these views will be found to be 
full of intense interest, and to afford many instructive hints to the pos- 
sessors of suburban villas or cottages. 
In building the house and laying out the grounds, Mr. Harrison was 
his own architect and Landscape Gardener ; not only devising the gene- 
