fituation, to be admired than this, fo delightfully diftinguished within the mingled gloom of high furrounding woods, and chearful vallies. A fmall circular lawn, fliut up every way by the hanging groves, opens in: front of this humble thatched dwelling; and a menagere on each fide the house, filled with great variety of extraneous birds of the gayeft plumage, give fuch a pleafing turn to this rural fequeftered place, that one knows not when to leave it.. The path winds round this lonely recefs, and enters into the finest ground imaginable, where turning to the left, a large irregular fheet of water fhews it felf glistening among the trees; and from a bridge of the most fimple conftruction, even to rudenefs, is feen a cafcade gufhing from a ragged heap of bricks, stones, and cinders. From From the bridge, which leads over the current of the water-fall, the ground takes a lovely fweep on every fide, and the path, which now looks again into different compartments of the wood, meets with a feat opening to another extenfive lawn, chequered with water, and delightfully fringed by trees, on the hanging fides of a deep valley. left, more open, Envil church, upon an eminence, is a great object; it enriches the fore ground, and gives a confequenceto the ranging hills, which touch the clouds at a very great distance. On the These noble woods, which here terminate, are joined by a fhrubbery, whose broad gravel walk gently falls among the choiceft evergreens, and gives feveral very judicious openings on one fide, to catch the fine views refulting from the highhanging woods; and the other, close to a common highway, without the precincts of the walks, the country is entirely.feclud ed. ed. The gothic gateway, as we advance nearer to the body of the fhrubbery, has a bold appearance, and the woods from hence are exceedingly ftriking, particularly where a large battlement peeps over the rich foliage of its extending arms. A building, as we advance into the more pleafing and diverfified part of the fhrubbery, catches the attention, called The BILLIARD-ROOM. This is a ftately gothic edifice, which does honour to the projector, and is extremely well executed. Its infide is richly adorned with ftucco, the cieling remarkably fo; at one end, in a niche, is a buft of Homer; and the oppofite a Cicero. A billiard table and a chamber-organ are the furniture of this noble room, which unfortunately is, at prefent, no object from any part of the walks, except from the gothic gateway. The ground about this. building building is laid out in a pretty tafte, and in one of its fine fhorn lawns, a vafe, curiously and richly ornamented with groupes of figures in bas relievo, is beheld with pleasure by every one who fees it. The delightful walks of Envil are fo extenfive and entertaining, that even a day is too fhort to go through them. Indeed. there is a riding round the extremity of the grounds, cut, as a glade, through the woods for the purpose of enjoying them in a carriage. This may be agreeable to fome, and permiffion is given by the nable proprietor to the vifiting parties to take the advantage of it: but this liberty is of no confequence to a man of tafte; he will never fuffer himself to be confined in a vehicle in the midft of fo many furrounding beauties, where almost every step varies the scene, and where every variation is picturesque and new. Too great an attention cannot be paid to places where nature and tafle have fprinkled fo many charms charms; there are several delightful receffes in the wood, and many points from whence are collected more pleafing profpects, than, perhaps, appear from the feveral felected from the feats where the path immediately leads to; and these will be eafily found by thofe who figh not on approaching a steep hill, and who take a pleasure in the contemplation of fuch quiet and amufing scenes. There is one or two in particular which. I cannot help mentioning. It will be remembered, that the path, after winding. round the grafs plot of the cottage, enters into the fine ground before noticed, when, inftead of pursuing it to the left, as the spectator is commonly led, he will mount the gay hill to the right, not forgetting to obferve the portico as he paffes, fo finely embofomed by the grove; and foon after, among the fheltering pines on its brow,. he will find himself at The |