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well concealed vegetable and fruit garden, complete 
the modem appliances of a tine country seat. 
Hampton , the residence of John Ridgley, Esq., is 
situated about nine miles north of Baltimore, and be- 
longs more properly to the early edition of this work, 
than to this supplement, which is intended simply 
to describe what has been done within ten years. 
It has been truly said of Hampton that it expresses 
more grandeur than any other place in America. 
It belongs to the stately order of places almost unknown 
here at the North, situated as it is in the midst of a do- 
main of six thousand acres. The facade of the house is 
one hundred and eighty feet in length, with offices at- 
tached, erected soon after the Revolution, in 1783. 
The entrance hall, of great width and dignity, passes 
the visitor to the south front, where is a terraced gar- 
den of great antiquity, with clipped cedar hedges of 
most venerable appearance. The formal terraces of 
exquisitely kept grass, the long rows of superb lemon 
and orange trees, with the adjacent orangerie and the 
foreign air of the house, quite disturb ones ideas of 
republican America. 
Clifton Park , near Baltimore, the residence of John 
Hopkins, Esq., is unquestionably one of the most elabo- 
rate places in this country. We remember no other, 
where in addition to a line and costly house, there is so 
large a range of glass, with such diversified and extensive 
grounds ; the varieties of trees, shrubs, walks, lawns, 
large pieces of ornamental water, containing numerous 
islands planted with masses of rhododendrons and ever- 
green shrubs, and connected by appropriate and tasteful 
bridges, are all, certainly, much in advance of any other 
place we know. 
Lyndkurst , the country seat of Reverdy Johnson, 
Esq., has a new and very striking house, with a most 
extended and superb view. 
Carroll Manor is another fine old' place, like Hampton, 
