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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
As the ground is declivous on all sides, except towards the north, it 
allows most perfect drainage from every sink and every sewer; and as 
the water for the service of the house, offices, and gardens is laid oil 
from a basin tilled from a well on an eminence to the northward of the 
house, an instant supply for every purpose within and without doors is 
had, and as ready means for discharging it when used, without labour, 
and without fear of want, or dread of it stagnating about the house. 
The mansion is a square Grecian fabric of considerable dimensions, 
and including every domestic convenience. The centre of the principal, 
floor is occupied by a spacious hall, which is lighted from a square and 
highly ornamented lanthorn, which rises above, and breaks the regular 
horizontal line of the surrounding parapet. The suite of apartments 
surround, and are all entered from the hall, which also contains two 
flights of stairs which lead to the gallery, which surrounds the hall on 
three sides, and is supported by elegant marble columns springing from 
the floor. The gallery has a beautifully light balustrade, similar to 
that of the stairs, which, descending, terminate on nowels, supporting 
lamp-stands of rich workmanship. 
The back of the gallery is pannelled, and serves for the collection of 
family and other portraits. The bed and dressing-rooms are also 
entered from it, and the whole are arranged with the utmost regard to 
comfort and convenience. 
The rooms on the principal floor are dining and breakfast rooms; two 
drawing-rooms, which, with the garden lobby between, may, when 
necessary, be thrown into one magnificent apartment. On the other 
side there is a music, or lady’s workroom, a library, and business- 
room. 
The butler’s pantry is at the end of the dining-room, at the end of 
which is a passage from the kitchen. 
There is an open area round the house, to give light to the basement 
story, which contains the servants’ hall and other apartments, store-rooms, 
&c. Under the yard are coal-vaults, with doors opening in the area. The 
officea are extended from each angle of the mansion, and have a regular 
ornamented character resembling the house. Across the bottom of the 
kitchen-court are a range of stables, separated by a lofty opening, with 
pilasters at the sides, surmounted by a square turret, containing a clock 
and servants’ dinner-bell, ornamented by a slender spire, gilt ball, and 
vane. The stables are lofted over ; that to the right is the coach-horse 
stable; the other, on the left, is the riding-horse stable. At the end of the 
former is a harness-room, with coachman’s bedroom over ; and at the end 
of the latter there is a saddle-room, with groom’s bedroom over. Beyond 
these two rooms, but in the same line, are two coach-houses, opening 
into the stable-yard, which is a paved yard, with a graduated pitched 
