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licence which so great a work of art is calculated to inspire.Such a plain forms an ample base for the noble structure whichgraces its extremity; the building and the plain are evidentlymade for each other, and consequently to increase the dimen-sions of either seems unnecessary.

The foregoing reasons relate to the hill as considered fromthe house only, I shall now consider it in other points of view.

Wentworth park consists of parts in themselves truly great andmagnificent. The Woods, the Lawns , the Water, and the Build-ings, are all separately striking; but considered as a whole, thereis a want of connexion and harmony in the composition: be-cause parts in themselves large, if disjoined, lose their importance.This I am convinced is the effect of too great an expanse ofunclothed lawn, but when the young trees shall have throwna mantle over this extensive knowl, all the distant parts willassume one general harmony, and the scattered masses of thissplendid scenery will be connected and brought together intoone vast and magnificent whole.

The use of a plantation on this hill in the approach fromRotherham is evident from the effect of a small clump whichwill form a part of this great mass, and which now hides thehouse, till by the judicious bend round that angle, the wholebuilding bursts at once upon the view.

It can readily be conceived, that before the old stables wereremoved there might appear some reason for not planting thishill; not because it was too near the front, but because the viewthus bounded by a wood on one side, and the large pile of oldstables on the other, would be too confined. That objection isremoved with the stables, and now a wood on this hill will form