Among the greatest examples of removing ground, may be mentioned the work going on at BULSTRODE, under the direction of his Grace the Duke of Portland himself; whose good taste will not suffer any part of that beautiful park to be disguised by the misjudging taste of former times, and who, by opening the valleys and taking away a great depth of earth from the stems of the largest trees, which had been formerly buried, is, by degrees, restoring the surface of the ground to its original and natural shape*. *[In this great work are occasionally employed, among the more efficient labourers, a hundred children, from ten to fifteen years old, who are thus early trained to habits of wholesome industry, far different from the foul air and confinement of spinning in a cotton-mill; to the benevolent observer no object can be more delightful than park scenery thus animated.] As connected with the subject of moving ground, I shall extract from my Red Book of WENTWORTH the following observations, concerning the great work at that place which had so long been carrying on under the direction of the late Marquis of Rockingham.
[Bulstrode Park is northwest of Gerrard's Cross in Buckinghamshire - TT].
