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The force of them is most strongly illustrated at Claremont*; where the walk to the cottage, though destitute of any natural advantages, and eminent for none; though it commands no prospect; though the water below it is a trifling pond; though it has nothing, in short, but inequality of cround to recommend it; is yet the finest part of the carden: for a grove is there planted, in a gently curved direction, all along the side of a hill, and on the edge of a wood, which rises above it. Large recesses break it into several clumps, which hang down the declivity; some of them approaching, but none reaching quite to the bottom. These recesses are so deep, as to form great openings in the idst of the grove; they penetrate almost to the covert; but the clumps being all equally suspended from the wood; and a line of open plantation, though sometimes narrow, running co stantly along the top; a continuation of grove is preserved, and the connexion between the parts is never broken. Even a roupe which near one of the extronities stands out quite detached, is still in style so similar to the rest, as not to lose all relation. Each of these clumps is composed of several others still ore ultimately united; each is full of groupes, fonotines of no more than two trees; sometimes of four or five; and now and then in larger clusters: an irregular waving line, issuing from some little croud, loses itself in the next; or a few scattered trees drop in a more distant succession from the one to the other. The intervals, winding here like a clade, and widening there into broader openings, differ in extent, in figure, and direction; but all the groupes, the lines, and the intervals are collected together into large general clumps, each of which is at the same time both compact and free, identical and various. The whole is a place wherein to tarry with secure delight, or saunter with perpetual amusement.

The Crove at Esher Place** was planted by the sale masterly hand; but the necessity of accommodating the young plantation to some large trees which grew there before, has confined its variety. The groupes are few and small; there was not room for larger or for Lore: there were no opportunities to form continued narrow glades between opposite lines; the vacant spaces are therefore chiefly irregular openings spreading every way, and great differences of distance between the trees are the principal variety; but the grove winds along the bank of a large river, on the side and at the foot of a very sudden ascent, the upper part of which is covered with wood. In one place it presses close to the covert: retires from it in another; and stretches in a third across a bold recess, which runs up high into the thicket. The trees sometimes overspread the flat below; sometimes leave an open space to the river; at othertimes coown the brow of a large knole, climb up a steep, or hang on a gentle declivity. These varieties in the situation more than compensate for the want of variety in the disposition of the trees; and many hapy circustances which concur

In Esher's peaceful grove,

Where Kent and nature vie for Telhan's love,

render this little spot more agreeable th n any at Claremont. But though it was right to preserve the trees already standing, and not to sacrifice creat present beauties to still greater in futurity; yet this attention has been a restraint; and the grove at Claremont, considered merely as a

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Near Esther in Surrey

Contiguous to Claremont.

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