It lies on the side of a hill, upon which the house stands, but not very steep. The length of the house, where the best rooms and of most use or pleasure are, lies upon the breadth of the garden; the creat parlour opens into the Liddle of a terras (ravel-walk that lies even with it, and which may lie, as I remember, about three hundred pacos long, and broad in proportion; the border set with standurd laurels and at large distances, which have the beauty of orange-trees out of flower and fruit. From this walk are three descents by many stone steps, in the middle and at each end, into a very large parterre. This is divided into quarters by cravol-walks, and adorned with two fountains and eight statues in the soverul cuarters. It the end of the terras-walk are two sumor-houses, and the sides of the parterre are rungod with two large cloisters open to the garden, unon archus of stone, and ending with two other cum T-houses even with the cloisters, which are paved with stone, and designed for walks of shade, there being none other in the whole parterre. Over these two cloisters are two terrasses covered with load, and fenced with balusters; and the passage into those airy walks is out of the two summer houses Lt the end of the first terras-walk. The cloister fecing the south is covered with vines, and would have been proper for an orange-house, and the other for Lyrtles of other more com on greens, and had, I doubt not, been cast for that purpose, i1 this piece of gardening had been then in as Luch vogue as it is now.

"From the middle of this parterre it a descent by any steps flying on each side of a grotto that lies between them, covered with load and flat, into the lower garden, which is all fruit-trees ranged about the several cuarters of a wilderness which is very shady; the walks hero are all green, the rotto embellished with figuros or shell-rock-work, fountains, and water-works. If the hill had not end d with the lower garden, and the wall were not bounded by a cormon way that coos through the park, they i ht have added a third quarter of all cr ons; but this want is supplied by a garden on the oth side the house, which is all of that sort, very wild, shady, and adorned with rough rockwork and fountains.

"This was oor Tark, when I was acquainted with it, and the sweetest place, I think, that I have ever seen in y life, either before or since, at home or abroad." Vide the late Barl of Orford on odern Grdening.

effect of several hills. That nearest to the house shelves gently under an open grove of noble trees, which hand on the declivity, and advance beyond it on the plain. The next is a large hill, pressing forward, and covered with wood from the top to the bottom. The third is a bold steep with a thicket falling down the steepest part, which makes it a pear still more precipitate: but the rest of the slope is bare; only the brow is crowned with wood, and towards the botto: is a little groupe of trees. These heights, thus finely characterised in themselves, are further distinguished by their appendages. The sall, compact croupe nor the foot, but still on the descent, of the further h 11, is contrasted by a lance straccling clump, some way out upon the lawn, before the middle eninence Between this and the first hill, under two or three trees which cross the opening, is seen to creat a vantare a winding clade, which rises beyond them, and marks the separation. his deep recess, the different di tances to which the hills advance, the contrast in their forms, and their accompaniments, cast the plain on this side into a most beautiful figure. The other side and the cnd were originally the flat edge of a descent, a harsh, offensive termin tion; but it is now broken by several hillocks, not diminutive in size, and considerable by the fine clumps w ich distinguish them. They recode one beyond another, and the outline waves aCreeably amongst them. They do one tan come ul the charpness of the edge; they convert a defor ity into a he tty, en greatly contribute to the embellishment of this most lovely scene; a scone however, in which the flat is principal; and yet a ore v ried, Lore vried, a more beautiful landskip, can hardly be desired in a garden.

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One of the first gardens planted in this simple though still formal style, was my father's at Foughton. It was laid out by Ir. Eyre, an imitator of Pridean. It contains three-and-twenty acres, then reckoned a considerable portion.

I call a sunk fonce the leading step, for these reasons. No sooner was this simple enchantment made, than levelling, rowing, and rolling followed. The contiguous round of the park without the sunk fence was to be harmonized wit the lawn within; and the garden in its turn was to be set free from i ́s prin regularity, that it night asfort with the wilder country without. The sunk fence ascertained the specific garden, but that it might not draw too obvious a line of distinction betwen the neat and the rude, the contiguous out-lying parts came to be included in a kind of general design: and when nature was taken into the plan, under improve..ents, every step that was made pointed out new beauties, and inspired new ideas. It that moment appeared lent, painter enough to taste the churms of landskip, bold and opionative enough to dare and to dictato and born with a genius to strike out a great system fro.. the twilight of i perfect essays. Te leaped the fence, and sew that all ne sure was a garden. llo felt the delicious contrast of hill and va loy changing imperceptibly into each other, tasted the beauty of the gentle swoll, or concave scoop, and remarked how lose groves crowned an easy eminence with happy ornament, and while they called in the distant view between their graceful stens, renoved and extended the perspective by d 1 sive compari

son.

Thus the pencil of his imagination bestowed all the arts of landskip on the fences he handled. The great principles on which he worked wero perspective, and light and shade. roupes of trees broke too unifor or too extensive a lawn; evergreens and woods were ppposed to the Clare of the champain, and where the view was less fortunate, or so ich exposed as to be beheld at once, he blotted out so.0 parts by thick shades, to divide it into variety, or to make the richest scene more enchanting by reserving it to a further advance of the spectator's step. Thus select-ing favourite objects, and voiling deformities by screens of plantation;