The foregoing reasons relate to the hill as considered from the house only; I shall now consider it in other points of view. Wentworth Park consists of parts, in themselves truly great and magnificent. The woods, the lawns, the water, and the buildings, are all separately striking; but, considered as a whole, there is a want of connexion and harmony in the composition; because parts in themselves large, if disjoined, lose their importance. This, I am convinced, is the effect of too great an expanse of unclothed lawn, but when the young trees shall have thrown a mantle over this extensive knoll, all the distant parts will assume one general harmony, and the scattered masses of this splendid scenery will be connected and brought together into one vast and magnificent whole. The use of a plantation on this hill, in the approach from Rotherham, is evident, from the effect of a small clump which will form a part of this great mass, and which now hides the house, till, by the judicious bend round that angle, the whole building bursts at once upon the view.
