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sequestered : through clumps of tall trees, riling ground is perceived ornamented
with wood, and divided by hedges into enclosures.
c. The Mqnjion—lituated in the centre of the lawn, from which it is divided by an ha-ha,
and commanding a rich alsemblage of home and distant view, sufficient to gratify
the eye in every direction.
d. Stables, &c:—surrounded by trees; through which the road winds. In this grove
are two entrances to the farm-yard : one from the green by the house, and the
other from the road itself.
e. Kitchen-Garden—divided from the lawn, and hid by a shrubbery : at one extremity
the orchard with the gardener’s cottage. The kitchen-garden is surrounded on
every side, and screened from piercing winds ; from the north by high hills, and
from every other quarter by shrubberies and tall trees.
f. Rufiic Temple at the■ Entrance into a Grove—This building is composed of unhewn
stone, covered with Ihrubs, and concealed from the eye until a very near approach:
the inside is neat, containing chairs in character, with a table : an inscription to
Simplicity over the door.
g. Temple of Neptune—This building has an elegant Corinthian portico, which opens
into a splendid saloon, sinished with taste and furnilhed with elegance; at the
upper end, in a recess separated from the principal room by pillars, in imitation
of Sienna marble, is a superb Venetian window, commanding through an avenue,
on the summit of an hill in the grounds, the figure of the god under a lhade. In
front from the portico, over an enclosure, the distant view is seen in the moll
interesting manner. The eye contemplates a venerable ruin in a neighbouring vale,
backed with wood, through which a river meanders until it joins a busy port,
when the ocean on one hand, and high hills at an extensive distance on the other,
bound the view.
h. A wild romantic Piece of Rock, from which isfues. a limpid Stream—Near the spring is
a mossy seat, with an inscription •, the top overarched with pendent boughs, and
with the thick foliage of trees : around, tendrils and ivy cover the rocky walls,
and unite to render this asylum not only impervious to the rays of the sun, but to
every eye.
i. Hermitage—This building consists of a small apartment with a rustic porch. The
walls ornamented with sea-weeds and shells, which, as the estate is at no great
dislance from the coast, is in charader. s At one end is a drawing os St. Jerome,
surrounded by a rustic frame composed of oak knots : an arm chair, a table,
and straw couch, the furniture: adjoining, in a small apartment, are a few simple
utensils, supposed to have been used by the anchorite for roots, pulse, and water :
from this a door opens, and a passage of treillis, covered with vines and ever-
greens, unites it with an oratory; on one side is a small rustic altar, and on the
other, an arch opening to a walk in the grove, and designed for the common path
of the neighbouring inhabitants when they were supposed to have attended the
holy man at his devotions : this path, over-run with weeds and briers, has every
indication of long disuse. "
k. Temple of Liberty—An odagon, with porticos fronting each os the four cardinal
points : in the centre, on a pedestal, under a superb dome, is a figure representing
this celestial goddess surrounded by her attributes : the walls ornamented with
basso-
sequestered : through clumps of tall trees, riling ground is perceived ornamented
with wood, and divided by hedges into enclosures.
c. The Mqnjion—lituated in the centre of the lawn, from which it is divided by an ha-ha,
and commanding a rich alsemblage of home and distant view, sufficient to gratify
the eye in every direction.
d. Stables, &c:—surrounded by trees; through which the road winds. In this grove
are two entrances to the farm-yard : one from the green by the house, and the
other from the road itself.
e. Kitchen-Garden—divided from the lawn, and hid by a shrubbery : at one extremity
the orchard with the gardener’s cottage. The kitchen-garden is surrounded on
every side, and screened from piercing winds ; from the north by high hills, and
from every other quarter by shrubberies and tall trees.
f. Rufiic Temple at the■ Entrance into a Grove—This building is composed of unhewn
stone, covered with Ihrubs, and concealed from the eye until a very near approach:
the inside is neat, containing chairs in character, with a table : an inscription to
Simplicity over the door.
g. Temple of Neptune—This building has an elegant Corinthian portico, which opens
into a splendid saloon, sinished with taste and furnilhed with elegance; at the
upper end, in a recess separated from the principal room by pillars, in imitation
of Sienna marble, is a superb Venetian window, commanding through an avenue,
on the summit of an hill in the grounds, the figure of the god under a lhade. In
front from the portico, over an enclosure, the distant view is seen in the moll
interesting manner. The eye contemplates a venerable ruin in a neighbouring vale,
backed with wood, through which a river meanders until it joins a busy port,
when the ocean on one hand, and high hills at an extensive distance on the other,
bound the view.
h. A wild romantic Piece of Rock, from which isfues. a limpid Stream—Near the spring is
a mossy seat, with an inscription •, the top overarched with pendent boughs, and
with the thick foliage of trees : around, tendrils and ivy cover the rocky walls,
and unite to render this asylum not only impervious to the rays of the sun, but to
every eye.
i. Hermitage—This building consists of a small apartment with a rustic porch. The
walls ornamented with sea-weeds and shells, which, as the estate is at no great
dislance from the coast, is in charader. s At one end is a drawing os St. Jerome,
surrounded by a rustic frame composed of oak knots : an arm chair, a table,
and straw couch, the furniture: adjoining, in a small apartment, are a few simple
utensils, supposed to have been used by the anchorite for roots, pulse, and water :
from this a door opens, and a passage of treillis, covered with vines and ever-
greens, unites it with an oratory; on one side is a small rustic altar, and on the
other, an arch opening to a walk in the grove, and designed for the common path
of the neighbouring inhabitants when they were supposed to have attended the
holy man at his devotions : this path, over-run with weeds and briers, has every
indication of long disuse. "
k. Temple of Liberty—An odagon, with porticos fronting each os the four cardinal
points : in the centre, on a pedestal, under a superb dome, is a figure representing
this celestial goddess surrounded by her attributes : the walls ornamented with
basso-