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of which is a recess, with a rude altar ; at the other, a door opening on the plain ;
and over the door, an oval window with painted glass, to admit the light, and
throw a gleam upon the altar—a circumstance which cannot fail to impart an
enthusiastic veneration. Around these apartments every thing to be in the highest;
order possible, to convey an idea of the amusements and innocent employ of its
once ixmple inhabitant.
g. 'Temple of Concord—This building is of Grecian constru&ion, with an elegant portico,
and other decorations, chaste, and in the highest style imaginable—the walls painted,
and containing allusions to its dedication; over the door of entrance an inscription
—elegant furniture within—windows open in the centre, to admit air, and the
distant view.
h. A Gothic Building—decorations in the most: animated style, destgned for a billiard-
room : it is proportioned accordingly—one end, a semicircular alcove, with a stove
to warm the apartment; at the other end a corresponding one, with two or three
small recesses in which to hang the mace, and deposit the other necessary articles of
the game.
i. Iron Gates—on the road leading from the turnpike to the house : this road ssopes until
it arrives at the portico: the gates are of the neatest and most simple construdtion,
and hung on stone piers.
k. Gate—leading to the slight of steps which conducts to the house; and on the other
side joins the serpentine walk with the kitchen-garden: this gate, completely hid
with shrubs, is likewise of iron whilst: immediately opposite to it, in the hollow
of the bank, is a rustic front, resembling the mouth of a cave, and which indeed
is the entrance into the passage from the house, already noticed.
A. B. Firjl Sectional Line.
C. D. Second Ditto, Ditto.
E. F. Third Ditto, Ditto.
i
G. H. Line for one of the SeEhonal Geometrical Views-— giving a range of the
whole, and the house on the Hope of the lawn. The other view is on
the sedtional line A. B. ; in this is shewn the house, backed by its plant-
ation—the lawn, the shrubbery round the kitchen-garden, the wood
on the upper grounds, and the heights beyond them. In both of the
sedtional geometrical views the distant country is delineated.
No.
of which is a recess, with a rude altar ; at the other, a door opening on the plain ;
and over the door, an oval window with painted glass, to admit the light, and
throw a gleam upon the altar—a circumstance which cannot fail to impart an
enthusiastic veneration. Around these apartments every thing to be in the highest;
order possible, to convey an idea of the amusements and innocent employ of its
once ixmple inhabitant.
g. 'Temple of Concord—This building is of Grecian constru&ion, with an elegant portico,
and other decorations, chaste, and in the highest style imaginable—the walls painted,
and containing allusions to its dedication; over the door of entrance an inscription
—elegant furniture within—windows open in the centre, to admit air, and the
distant view.
h. A Gothic Building—decorations in the most: animated style, destgned for a billiard-
room : it is proportioned accordingly—one end, a semicircular alcove, with a stove
to warm the apartment; at the other end a corresponding one, with two or three
small recesses in which to hang the mace, and deposit the other necessary articles of
the game.
i. Iron Gates—on the road leading from the turnpike to the house : this road ssopes until
it arrives at the portico: the gates are of the neatest and most simple construdtion,
and hung on stone piers.
k. Gate—leading to the slight of steps which conducts to the house; and on the other
side joins the serpentine walk with the kitchen-garden: this gate, completely hid
with shrubs, is likewise of iron whilst: immediately opposite to it, in the hollow
of the bank, is a rustic front, resembling the mouth of a cave, and which indeed
is the entrance into the passage from the house, already noticed.
A. B. Firjl Sectional Line.
C. D. Second Ditto, Ditto.
E. F. Third Ditto, Ditto.
i
G. H. Line for one of the SeEhonal Geometrical Views-— giving a range of the
whole, and the house on the Hope of the lawn. The other view is on
the sedtional line A. B. ; in this is shewn the house, backed by its plant-
ation—the lawn, the shrubbery round the kitchen-garden, the wood
on the upper grounds, and the heights beyond them. In both of the
sedtional geometrical views the distant country is delineated.
No.