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The magnificent Library, or Living-room, consists of three
compartments, with a fire-place in each, and a flue near the
windows of the bow: the centre is fifty feet by twenty-eight,
opening into two recesses, or tribunes, of different shapes, fitted
up in very different manners, one being for music-books and
instruments, the other for books of prints and portfolios of
drawings; and both joined to the large library by a skreen of
columns, or at pleasure separated from it by drapery and cur-
tains. All this is repeated by a large mirror over the fire-place,
which, aided by three apertures for stained glass above the
level of the bookcases, prevents this end from being deficient
in light, and gives to the whole an air of united cheerfulness,
magnificence, and novelty.
On leaving these new rooms, NO 6, 7, and 8, we enter the
old suite of apartments, No 9, 10, and 11, now opening into each
other by large folding doors, and from the spot marked X we
have two enjilades, one of about three hundred feet, but in fact,
by the mirror of Flora, rendered indefinite; and the other of
about seventy feet along the two green-houses, through the en-
trance-porch, and terminating either by a statue or fountain,
or doubled by another mirror at the end.
On the Plan are distinguished by a light brown wash, the
grounds for use and not for ornament, being invisible from the
house; and by a green wash those which are visible from the
principal rooms, consisting of landscape and park scenery,
where the cattle are prevented from breaking the windows by
a dwarf terrace-wall, richly dressed with flowers, which forms