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Title: The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834
Subjects: Fashion Art, Decorative
Publisher: London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ...
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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beetling cliff, stands high above the
broad blue ocean that eternally
moves beneath.
Orchard, as will be seen by the
annexed view, is rather in the style
denominated Italian: its orange-walks
of considerable extent, its terraces
and richly sculptured vases, its foun-
tains and various other embellish-
ments, give it an air that would seem
to say, the luxuriant in art shall
blend with the grand in nature. The
euilding is irregular, and though
perfectly a whole, bears the stamp
of continual additions. The entrance
is a pleasing vestibule, which com-
municates with the hall, breakfast-
room, and library, pleasingly fitted
up with rich carved furniture. The
dining-room is in the same taste, and
of fine proportions: connected with
the latter are several small apart-
ments, containing cabinets of rare
shells, &c. A circular stone stair-
case leads to a very elegant small
room, containing richly inlaid cabi-
nets and rare birds, and which room
forms a vestibule to the drawing-
room. Over against this entrance,
a corresponding entrance-room or
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THE CASTLE OF CAERLEON. 191

vestibule, fitted up in a similar man-
ner to that just mentioned, has a
pleasing effect. The drawing-room
is richly furnished, and contains some
rare and fine pieces of china, with
alabaster figures after Canova. Three
French windows, of large dimensions,
open into a verandah, which, being
furnished with glass, forms a sitting-
room, commanding beautiful views
of nearly the whole of the Undercliff.
The roof, projecting considerably
over this verandah, throws a bold
shadow, which, in the summer sea-
son, renders it truly delightful.
Plants and shrubs of all descrip-
tions grow here with the utmost
luxuriance; and this portion of the
Undercliff is rich in timber, of which
the island generally is rather scanty;
though it is said, that in the time of
Charles II. timber was so plentiful,
that a squirrel might have travelled
on the tops of the trees for miles to-
gether. If this tradition be correct,
there is no question but the greater
part has found a market in the
dock-yards of Portsmouth

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