Monadon House; The Rev. John Paulby. An extensive and grand place, with the wood admirably disposed, and with the power of forming a fine lake in the middle distance. The house is entered in front; but, by terraces and other arrangements, a portico might be added at one side, so as not to show a stranger every beauty before he leaves his carriage, as at present. The doorways and chimney-pieces are mostly of granite, like those of Fleet House. The walls are in some places 8 ft. thick, and up one chimney there is a concealed chamber 6 ft. square, in which a great many old papers and parchments were discovered some years ago, but not till they were so far charred as to be illegible. We noted here a fine old tulip tree with a trunk 15 ft. in circumference, and a silver fir of astonishing height, with a trunk about 6 ft. in diameter.
