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VII	The South round-about continued from the Mount Gate to Grosvenor Gate -- 
N.o-- --	4 Seats at a little distance from each other, facing the Park --
5th  A seat round a Chesnut[?]i Tree in the middle Bastion; the half of this Seat is taken away, and the remaining half is very much out of repair --   
         *6thii a covered Seat
7th A Seat round a Chesnutiii tree in the North Bastion; broken and out of repair -- 

VIII  	A large Stone Building west of the illeg[canal?] and facing the Serpentine River in Hyde Park of which it commands a View: this Building was formerly Kept in good Order with Seats &c[?]iv but is now going to decay, the Roof is broken in, and the Stone Work is injured in severalv Places

Number of covered Seats                  11
Without Covers   {line}                       39
The wood Work taken away {line}      2} without Cover[?]vi
Broken and damaged.   {line}              3}vii

There is a covered Seat at the Gate leading from the House Lawn to the Palace Green, where a Porter sits --
Read &[?]viii approved as a just statementix Mr. J. A[?]x

i Chestnut?
ii *inserted to left of 6
iii Chestnut?
iv This Could be old form of etc: &c
v This could be several or seven
vi This word abridged at edge of page
vii These 2 lines bracketed together
viii "read &" makes sense in context, but illegible
ix This is inserted in a different hand
x I can't make this out. Or T.K.? (see page 230)