256 Defeription of the Scenery near Dorking, Leithahill, tc. fO&s 
the adjacent country. Some remarkable 
large plane trees decorate the flope; and 
on one hand is a rookery on the top of 
fome lofty pines. Mrs. Cornwall! cul- 
tivates many curious plants, and her 
fhrubbery is furnifhed with fome beautiful 
exotics in high perfection. Joining to 
Chart-park, on the fide of Dorking, are 
the elegant woods and grounds of the 
houfe of Lady Burrell, a large modern 
brick edifice, which forms a confpicuous 
object in the views of that town. The 
feries of irregular heights which compote 
_the fouthern fide of the vale formerly men 
tioned, next leads to an erninence mark- 
ed by a clump of firs, and commonly eal- 
led Dorxine’s GLtory. ‘This isavery 
happy {tation for a profpeét, command- 
ing not only the vales of Leatherhead and 
Dorking, but a long tract of the fouthern 
part of Surrey, extending to the borders 
of Suffex. Pafling weftwards, behind the 
town of Dorking, the chain of elewated 
ground leads to BERRY-HILL, a feat be- 
longing to Lord Grimfton, now in the 
occupancy of George Shum, Efq. A 
low ridge of hill, loofely planted with 
wood, terminates in a thick dark fir plan- 
tation,’ juft behind which, fronting the 
fouth, ftands the houfe. This is an edi- 
fice of more fhew and architectural pre- 
tenfion than thofe of the other feats in the 
neighbourhood ; and by .the complete 
fhelter it receives from the north and 
eaft, and its expofure toa fouthern fun, 
muft cnjoy a full fhare of all the warmth 
this climate can boaft. Before it is a 
handfome piece of water, artificially made 
at great cofi ; and beyond, thie view ter- 
minates in fome bold eminences crown- 
ed with fr and larch. “The charaéter of 
this feat is elegance united with the true 
Englifh charm of {nugnefs. It feems ra- 
ther calculated for the enjoyment of the 
ewner, than the paze of the fpectator. 
About a mile weftward from hence, 
on the lower Guilford road, is the 
Rookery, the villa of Richard Ful- 
ler, Efq. This delightful place occu- 
pies one of thofe dells wnich defcend from 
the fouth into the long vale we have 
above defcribed, each ferving as the bed 
of. a little ftream. The imagination can 
f{carcely conceive a fcene of the kind more 
complete than this. The dell, at a dif- 
tance, appears like a break or chafih be- 
tween two hills, entirely filled with wood. 
On entering it, however, there is found 
to be room for a {weet verdant meadow, 
containing a ftream which defcends in 
feveral little falls (rather too artificial) 
and turns a mill near the houfe. The 
houfe itfelf, a plain white building ina 
kind of antique ftyle of architeéture, 
ftands upon a floping bank, having di- 
rectly oppofite to it a bold eminence finely 
planted with trees, and fubiiding in-a 
green lawn. ‘The ftream, now widened, 
runs between; and, a little higher, ex- 
pands into an extenfive poel, fhaded on 
all fides with trees and fhrubs to the 
water’s edge, and winding out of fight.. 
A narrow ftrip of green lawn bordering 
the water, fpreading at length into a 
{mall meadow, forms all the reft of the 
grounds which is not occupied with wood. 
Plantations of -beeches and other tall tim- 
ber trees, fill the remaining {pace, infu- 
lating (as it were) the whole with a belt 
of foreft fcenery, and) fecuring to it a 
character of coolnefs and fequeftered re- 
treat, which no other place that I have 
feen poffeffes in an equal degree. The 
hotteft and moft funny feafon of the year 
feems the time for enjoying this place to 
fulladvantage. In dark and chilly wea- 
ther, it muft probably appear to fapera~ 
bound with fhade and moifture; yet the 
fite of the houfe is tolerably cheerful and 
open. ‘ 
A little to the fouth-wef of the Rook- 
ery, another dell defcends in the fame di- 
rection, called by the appropriate name’ of 
VALLEY LONESOME. ‘This is ocecu- 
pied by the houfe and grounds of Mr. 
Haynes, and prefents a fcene confiderably 
different from any yet defcribed. The 
houfe, an elegant piece of architecture, 
appears, by a jet d'eau playing in front, 
with two equidiftant bridges, and various 
ornamental appendages, difpofed with 
perfect correfpondence and regularity, to 
have been planned before the modern tafte 
of rurak decoration took place. ‘The 
ftream ficwing through the valley is made 
to put ona variety of forms in bafons, 
falls, channels, &c. which are rather 
trifling; but a ca{cade, really of fome 
effect, burfts out from a high bank which 
borders the vale, though the fteps or 
ledges down which the water is made to 
fall, and the round ftone-bafon which af 
laft receives it, give it too formal an ap- 
peararice. The general character of Valley 
Lonefome is gay and cheerful, notwith- 
ftanding its fequeitered fituation. Its 
upper end terminates m that wild tract, 
which at length becoming a black naked 
moor, rifes into the celebrated LeiTuH- 
Hitt. The afeent on this fide is very 
gentle; and the elevation would fcarcely 
be fufpected, were it not for. the very ex- 
tenfive profpect that burfts on the fight 
at the farther extremity. A tower, now 
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