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surround the mansion with a wild domain in which 
deer may run wild within certain limits, and trees 
reach their finest proportions without formality. The 
park and its contents are really subordinate to the 
daily pleasure and convenience of the resident owner, 
though in some cases, notably that of Warwick 
Castle, small and ancient deer-parks exist at a distance 
from the mansion, and form preserves much in the 
spirit of Mr. Corbin’s forest. But this enclosure of 
thirty-five square miles in a ring-fence must be 
without a rival either in modern or ancient history, 
though perhaps the “ paradises ” of the Persian 
satraps, “ filled with all kinds of wild beasts and 
trees,” watered by numerous streams and enclosed by 
walls — parks like that in which Xenophon and the 
Greek captains were led to expect that the army of 
the great king was lying in wait to destroy them — 
may have approached it in size. 
The modern “ paradise ” lies in New Hampshire, 
almost the northernmost of the old States, on the 
Atlantic slope, between Vermont and Maine, and 
incloses a portion of the “ White Mountains ” and 
hill-lands, running northwards from the Alleghanies 
to the banks of the St. Lawrence, east of Montreal. 
It is a temperate and well-wooded region, and water is 
abundant. The park itself contains two large pools 
of twenty and thirty acres, and nearly two miles of 
streams, with timber of all sizes, and good pasture- 
land. Bison, beaver, and deer should all find favour- 
able conditions in such a spot. The work of stocking 
