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ANTIQUITIES.

its lawns, Apuldarcombe, the hereditary residence of the ancientfamily of Worsley , claims the first notice. The house has beenentirely rebuilt of stone, within the last century ; but was at avery great expense, enlarged and decorated by the late baronet:The park was laid out by Brown, and of course the house standslike a mushroom on the open lawn, without an accompanimentor a comfort in sight. The woods, probably from being thinnedat that time, are in many parts eaten up with canker and moss,so as to have, even in the midst of summer, a dead and wintryappearance. An air of melancholy magnilicence, pervades thewhole. It is, however, well worth a visit, on account of thecollection of marbles placed there by Sir Richard Worsley , thelate owner . Among these, many will be found highly worthythe attention of the curious traveller. A more particular mentionof them would be superfluous, as they have been given to theworld, in great detail, by Sir Richard, in his magnificent work,entitled Museum Worsleyanum. There are also many pictures,some of them very good.

Swainston, the seat of Sir John Barrington, though in a greatdegree modernised, has yet remaining, in the offices, some curiousfragments of high antiquity. A very neat Norman double-headedwindow is visible in the court, and the outside of a pretty chapelis nearly entire. It has an east window much resembling thosein Arreton church, and, probably, nearly of that date. Thesefragments of antiquity, are possibly a part of the mansion of thebishops of Winchester, to whom, in early times, the manor ofSwainston belonged. It is rather singular, that they are notmentioned in any account of the island, except Tomkins’s, andin that, very imperfectly.