Although the verdure, the smoothness of the surface, and nature of the soil at Bulstrode, are such as to make every part of the park pleasant to drive over; yet there is a propriety in marking certain lines of communication, which may lead from one interesting spot to another; and though a road of approach to a house ought not to be circuitous, the drive is necessarily so; yet this should be under some restraint. By the assistance of the map [fig. 69], I shall describe the course of the drive at BULSTRODE; and, however devious it may appear on paper, it will, I trust, be found to possess such a variety as few drives can boast; and that no part of it is suggested without sufficient reasons for its course. I would not here be understood to infer, that every park can boast those advantages which BULSTRODE possesses, or that every place offers sufficient extent and variety for such a drive appropriated to pleasure only; but this is introduced as an archtype or example, from whence certain principles are reduced to practice. Some of my observations, in the course of this description, may appear to have been anticipated by Mr. Whateley, and if I may occasionally deliver them as my own sentiments, I hope the coincidence in opinion with so respectable a theorist, will not subject me to the imputation of plagiarism.
