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needs be deemed preferable to the work which she produced. The Gardens, as now seen, were laid out in the reign of William III. by London and Wise, whom we have before noticed as gardeners to that King and to Queen Anne. The lawns are shaped with mathematical precision, and are meagre evergreens, placed at given distances. walks intersect this graceless display; and statues and vases, which deserve a more appropriate arrangement, are placed in formal opposition to each other at measured points. Two of these latter pieces of sculpture are situated at the entrance of the chief walk, and both are elaborately ornamented. One of these is the work of Caius Gabriel Cibber, and it is said that he performed the task in competition with a foreigner who executed the other vase; but the labours of these presumed rivals are not distinguished. At the lower part of the same walk are two other vases, bearing a studied resemblance to the former, and sumptuously worked, like them, in bas-relief, with subjects from the heathen mythology.

In each of the four principal parterres is placed a large bronze statue. The first of these (the fighting gladiator, from the antique in the Borghese Palace) formerly stood in the parade of St. James's Park. The others are also after the antique, and represent Apollo; Diana; and Saturn.

The privy-garden is ornamented with terrace-walks and a fountain. On this side of the palace is a grape-house, demanding notice. The dimensions of the building are 70 feet by 14, and the whole interior is occupied by one vine, of the black Hamburgh kind, which was planted in the year 1769, and has been known to produce in one year 2200 bunches of grapes, weighing, on an average, one pound each. The kitchen gardens belonging to the palace comprise twelve acres of ground.

Norden, writing in the reign of Elizabeth, describes the enclosures appertaining to the palace as comprising two parks, "the one of deare, the other of hares;" both of which were PART IV. environed

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environed with brick walls, except the south side of the former, "which was paled and environed with the Thames." A survey, made in the year 1653, divides these enclosures no. minally in Bu hy old Park, the New Park, the Middle or North Park, the Hare-warren, and Hampton Court course.

The division last named would appear to have comprised the district now termed Hampton Court Park, a tract which extends from the borders of the Palace-gardens to Hampton. wick, and is bounded on the south by the river Thames, and on the north by the high road to Kingston. This park is well stocked with deer, and has several avenues of trees, and some fine sprinklings of wood less formally disposed. It is divided from the river, in one part, by a broad gravel walk and an extensive range of massy and richly-ornamented iron-rails. His royal highness the Duke of Kent is ranger of this park, and occasionally occupies, by virtue of that office, an agree able residence termed the Pavilions, erected by Sir Christopher Wren in the reign of William and Mary.

The palace founded by Cardinal Wolsey is supplied with water, of the purest kind attainable, by desultory and costly channels. On the side of Combe Hill, near Kingston in Surrey, is a conduit,* concentrating the burthen of three reservoirs, which conveys water to a cistern in the palace. This water passes under the Hogsmill river, near Kingston; and under the Thames, by means of pipes, at a short distance from the Palace towards the east. The Canal, or as it is often termed the Cardinal's, or King's River, issues from the river Colne near Longford, and passes over Hounslow-heath, and through Hanworth and Bushy parks.

Bushy Park comprises all the royal enclosures appertaining to the palace of Hampton, except the district already described

* See this conduit noticed in the "Beauties of England and Wales,” for Surrey, p. 190, where it is observed that "Dr. Hales affirms the water from this source to be softer than either the Thames water, or that of the river which crosses Hounslow Heath to Hampton Court."

scribed as forming the Home-park. These enclosures contain in the whole about 1100 acres, and are enriched by long avenues of chestnut and elm trees. The former are of noble growth, and impart much beauty to the park; but, with the exception of these stately avenues, the whole domain is deficient in timber, or ornamental umbrage. A contest of some celebrity, respecting a right of passage through this park, is noticed in our account of Hampton Wick.

The office of ranger of Bushy Park has usually been held by the same persons who have been Chief Stewards of the Honour of Hampton and Keepers of the Chase. This office is, accordingly, now vested in his royal highness the Duke of Clarence. Bushy Lodge, the official. residence of his Royal Highness, is believed to have been built by the first Earl of Halifax. This is a square, substantial, edifice of brick, much improved by the present royal occupier.

The VILLAGE OF HAMPTON is pleasantly situated on the border of the Thames, at the distance of about thirteen miles from London. In general character this place has little to interest the examiner, but there are some few substantial dwellings in situations desirably retired. The most attractive villa is termed HAMPTON HOUSE, a structure that few will pass without blended respect and curiosity when it is remembered that this was the chosen country residence of DAVID GARRICK, who had the great boast of introducing a natural style of acting to the English stage, and who, thereby, exhibited to popular apprehension the more retired beauties of the immortal Shakspeare.

Garrick purchased this house in the year 1754, and effected such important alterations in the premises, that, as far as taste is concerned, the whole arrangement may be considered a work after his own design. The house is not very extensive, and the principal rooms are of rather a gloomy character. A handsome new front was bestowed on the building, under the direction

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