SHAPE OF GROUND. THERE is so little inequality of surface, that the ground may be almost described as perfectly flat, except that the stables are placed rather higher than the general level: this alone would render it necessary to form a small valley, or hollow, betwixt the stables and the house, to prevent the latter from being oppressed by the former.* Every valley in nature has a fall in some one direction, generally serving as a drain for the surface water; and wherever this is interrupted, either by natural or artificial obstructions, water is formed into a lake in large valleys, and into a pool in small ones.
*[Supposing the two objects to be kept distinct: but, as I should rather wish to consider them so connected as to form one magnificent whole, under the name of the PAVILLON, I cannot treat them as distinct objects, but as different parts of the same scenery.]
