Kitley; E. P. Bastard, Esq.; at present in the occupation of Lord Seaton. This is an extensive and well-wooded place, with a fine expanse of water. The house has recently been improved in the old English style by George [Stanley] Repton, Esq.; and the flower-garden, Lord Seaton informed us, is from a design volunteered by Chantrey, while he was on a visit to the late Mr. Bastard. The drive round the park is remarkably fine, both from its trees and from its views. Beautiful views of the salt-water lake and estuary are obtained in some places, and of the open sea in others. In one part of the drive, where it passes through old quarries, the ground, the road, and the larches have been so arranged as to remind us of Switzerland; and, in other low damp places, the continuity of spruce firs of different ages recalls to mind the forests of this tree between Memel and Konigsburg. We went to the kitchen-garden to see the Kitley shaddock; but Mr. Saunders was not at home, and we could only guess at which was the plant which yielded the fruit sent to us in 1826, the first year of the Gardener's Magazine. In the drive we noticed a common laurel with a straight erect stem, 50 ft. high, and the stem 18 in. in diameter.
