Sept. 17- Moreton Hampstead to Ugbrook and Exeter. The road to Ugbrook is through a beautiful country chiefly along the sides of well-wooded valleys, with rich meadows, and apple orchards laden with fruit. Ugbrook; Lord Clifford. The park here contains the greatest quantity of fine old wood that we have seen in Devonshire. The trees are not crowded, and many of them, therefore, have attained an immense size, and taken their natural shapes. They are also remarkably well displayed with reference to the inequalities of the surface. Sketches of many of these trees have been taken by Mr. Nesfield. We only measured one or two, a Dutch elm 20 ft. round at 4 ft. from the ground; and an oak with a trunk 27 ft. round, 60 ft. high, and with the branches covering a space 120 ft. in diameter. What gratified us much was to see a number of young single trees introduced throughout the park in very suitable places. No tree is put down except on the precise spot chosen by Lord Clifford, who, from the remarks he made to us, and the operations going forward, we should conclude to be possessed of good taste in landscape-gardening. The house is a square mass, pierced with equidistant windows all of the same size, without any other merit; it is too meagre to be called elegant, and not lofty enough to be considered grand. A house, however, is within the power of man, but the grounds and the woods of Ugbrook can only be produced by a fortunate concurrence of natural circumstances many years in operation.
