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CLIFF.
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No. IV. ROSE
TN proportion to extent and to local advantages, so may improvement advance, till rural embel-
liffiment has nothing further to demand. A small spot labours under innumerable dissiculties
which it is scarcely possible to remove, particularly as much depends on neighbourhood and
view j in regard to which, an envious character may frustrate the labour of years by invidious art,
and not only intercept the light of perhaps the molt interelting objetd, but likewise overlook the
grounds, and insult their privacy and retirement.
In this respedt, therefore, Rose Cliff claims a superiority over the preceding deligns ; contain-
ing thirty acres, it may not only be highly ornamented, but rendered os some utility as a small
dairy farm. It has likewise a sufficient assemblage os wood and water, and such variety in the
surface, that scarce any thing farther is necessary than to prune away the exuberances with a
careful hand, that none os its natural beauties may be concealed.
If in the three preceding plans much attention has been requisite to lliew them to advantage,
and to give, not only from the windows of each house, from the different points, but likewise
the walks, an idea of more considerable extent than they really possess—in Rose Cliff, the acci-
dental shape, and the natural advantages of hill and dale, have sully accomplilhed the purpose.
The riling knoll at one extremity, backed by a thick grove; the river, pouring its dream through
the valley ; the swelling grounds beyond; and the rocks, in some parts towering above, in others
crowned with the venerable oak, contribute their assistance to render it perfectly romantic and sub-
lime.
In such a situation not much difficulty remained as to a requilite spot for the manlion. The
knoll, or hill, already noticed, commanding the mod intereding view over the edate, is therefore
determined upon. In front, a lawn extends itself, and is bounded by the river. The ground
on the oppolite side, dotted with clumps os trees, is divided into enclosures by natural sweeps,
and ornamented with hedges and thriving plantations. On the right, a small irregular piece of
water is perceived glittering amongd underwood and trees, and embellilhed with a rudic mill.
This little home scene is opposed on the other side of the house by a more extenlive one—a
country enriched with the highed cultivation, luxuriant in the extreme, covered with villages,
farm-houses, and adorned with the windings of a large and beautiful river. This view is lod
behind the rising grounds and woods.os the farm, which terminate at the cliffs, whild beyond,
over the dell, hanging woods discovered in the didance, from an happy combination appear to
belong to the edate itself. Behind the mansion are the offices, kitchen-garden, and other neces-
sary family conveniences, screened from the lawn as in the preceding plans.
From the foregoing observations a general idea may be sormed of this little farm. Its
peculiar beauties, however, can only be underdood by tracing the walk, which commences
betwixt a clump of trees. After winding near the fence contiguous to the lawn, descends
a dope, having the ground high on the left, and a young grove in the corner on the right :
pading some venerable oaks, it enters a small wood, where, under the covert of a fhade, is an
urn of the simpled condrudtion : presently an open field presents itself, and a rudic bench,
from whence is perceived the river palling through the valley, the lawn, with rising ground
on the oppolite ssiore, fringed with wood, and covered with sheep and cattle. Accompanying
the path, which now rises the hill, and entering the wood, it soon arrives at a spot close to the
edge of the cliff, defended by a rail on one side. Above, the rocks rise, and are overhung with
the roots of trees, which form a perfebt canopy ; scooped into an hollow is a seat; over it.
on
[ 8 ]
No. IV. ROSE
TN proportion to extent and to local advantages, so may improvement advance, till rural embel-
liffiment has nothing further to demand. A small spot labours under innumerable dissiculties
which it is scarcely possible to remove, particularly as much depends on neighbourhood and
view j in regard to which, an envious character may frustrate the labour of years by invidious art,
and not only intercept the light of perhaps the molt interelting objetd, but likewise overlook the
grounds, and insult their privacy and retirement.
In this respedt, therefore, Rose Cliff claims a superiority over the preceding deligns ; contain-
ing thirty acres, it may not only be highly ornamented, but rendered os some utility as a small
dairy farm. It has likewise a sufficient assemblage os wood and water, and such variety in the
surface, that scarce any thing farther is necessary than to prune away the exuberances with a
careful hand, that none os its natural beauties may be concealed.
If in the three preceding plans much attention has been requisite to lliew them to advantage,
and to give, not only from the windows of each house, from the different points, but likewise
the walks, an idea of more considerable extent than they really possess—in Rose Cliff, the acci-
dental shape, and the natural advantages of hill and dale, have sully accomplilhed the purpose.
The riling knoll at one extremity, backed by a thick grove; the river, pouring its dream through
the valley ; the swelling grounds beyond; and the rocks, in some parts towering above, in others
crowned with the venerable oak, contribute their assistance to render it perfectly romantic and sub-
lime.
In such a situation not much difficulty remained as to a requilite spot for the manlion. The
knoll, or hill, already noticed, commanding the mod intereding view over the edate, is therefore
determined upon. In front, a lawn extends itself, and is bounded by the river. The ground
on the oppolite side, dotted with clumps os trees, is divided into enclosures by natural sweeps,
and ornamented with hedges and thriving plantations. On the right, a small irregular piece of
water is perceived glittering amongd underwood and trees, and embellilhed with a rudic mill.
This little home scene is opposed on the other side of the house by a more extenlive one—a
country enriched with the highed cultivation, luxuriant in the extreme, covered with villages,
farm-houses, and adorned with the windings of a large and beautiful river. This view is lod
behind the rising grounds and woods.os the farm, which terminate at the cliffs, whild beyond,
over the dell, hanging woods discovered in the didance, from an happy combination appear to
belong to the edate itself. Behind the mansion are the offices, kitchen-garden, and other neces-
sary family conveniences, screened from the lawn as in the preceding plans.
From the foregoing observations a general idea may be sormed of this little farm. Its
peculiar beauties, however, can only be underdood by tracing the walk, which commences
betwixt a clump of trees. After winding near the fence contiguous to the lawn, descends
a dope, having the ground high on the left, and a young grove in the corner on the right :
pading some venerable oaks, it enters a small wood, where, under the covert of a fhade, is an
urn of the simpled condrudtion : presently an open field presents itself, and a rudic bench,
from whence is perceived the river palling through the valley, the lawn, with rising ground
on the oppolite ssiore, fringed with wood, and covered with sheep and cattle. Accompanying
the path, which now rises the hill, and entering the wood, it soon arrives at a spot close to the
edge of the cliff, defended by a rail on one side. Above, the rocks rise, and are overhung with
the roots of trees, which form a perfebt canopy ; scooped into an hollow is a seat; over it.
on