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LANDSCAPE GARDENING, 
having a central dome with side wings, and servants’ apartments be¬ 
hind. The front entrance next the river is under a pediment supported 
by handsome columns, and approached by flights of steps on each side. 
The water is pumped into elevated cisterns for supplying the baths, 
&c.; and the whole is designed with great taste, and includes every 
convenience required in such a necessary building. 
Although a beautiful object in itself, and marking the affluence of 
the proprietor, it is certainly at too great a distance from the man¬ 
sion-house to be conveniently used. On my remarking on this circum¬ 
stance, his Lordship was pleased to explain how it happened to be 
placed where it was. A former dowager lady of the estate fixed on a 
station in the wood, on the higher ground above the baths, to build 
herself a villa, (which we were then approaching by a rising road,) and 
as an appendage she also built the baths for her own use. On her 
death, the villa became a residence for the land-steward, which it 
still continues to be, and the baths are kept up as a memorial of the 
deceased. 
The steward’s house is a handsome structure, built and fitted up in 
the cottage style, containing several large and airy rooms, two of which 
are kept for the use of his Lordship and friends, to take coffee or choco¬ 
late when out riding or driving in that quarter. The windows com¬ 
mand a fine extensive view of the valley of the river; and though but 
little of the park is seen, except through two narrow vistas, yet the 
situation is well chosen for a summer residence ; and it has a dressy 
appearance in consequence of some of the more choice sorts of exotic 
forest trees, planted by the Dowager Countess, having become inter¬ 
mixed in the surrounding wood. 
Proceeding from thence through wood of various character and 
aspect, we arrived on a rather elevated plain, on which was plainly 
discernible the traces of what had been once an entrenched camp, but 
whether Roman or British, is unknown; but certainly of very ancient 
date, as some of the largest and apparently oldest oak trees grow on the 
crest of the mound, as well as in the ditch. A little further, and on a 
knoll in view of the house, is erected a lofty stone obelisk on a square 
pedestal, inscribed to the memory of the Hon. Colonel J. R-, who 
fell at the head of his regiment in storming the citadel of-, in 
Germany. Such monuments are suitable ornaments for a park, and 
more especially when intended to immortalise the truly honourable, the 
worthy, or the brave. However interesting either natural or artificial 
scenery may be, it is always enhanced by objects which elicit new ideas, 
recal pleasing recollections, or incite new trains of thought or of con¬ 
versation, which may be mutually instructive or entertaining. 
