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From the church-yard, the rising slopes of Norbury Park, beautifully variegated with stately trees, appear to the greatest advantage: the park itself is extensive and well diversified: it is asserted that, when Sir Richard Stydolfe, was owner, it was famed for containing 40,000 walnut trees.

The extent and richness of prospect from the house fill the beholder with admiration. To the north a large expanse of country displays a varied and magnificent scene. The south presents a picture equally striking: elegant villas and plantations on each side; Deepden, late the Duke of Norfolk's, but now belonging to Lady Burrell, majestically closing the view. The hanging hills, adorned with stately beech on the right, contrast with the fine downs covered with evergreens, and the chalky crags of Box Hill, on the left. Beneath is a fertile vale through which the river Mole silently pursues its course, and then sinks imperceptibly from the sight. The banks of Arno cannot excel this scene. Mr. Lock's saloon unites this grand amphitheatre of nature with the most excellent production of the late Barrett's inimitable pencil: an attempt unprecedented. The magnificent scenery with which he has em bellished the walls, being artfully managed to appear as a continuation of the view, introducing in the western compartment an assemblage of the lakes and mountains in Cumberland and Westmoreland, blended together, forms a landscape expressive of the most majestic idea of rural grandeur. The rude crags and distant summit of Skiddaw, are contrasted with the placid meer below, which seems genially heated by the warm rays of a summer's setting sun, rendered more brilliant by the tints of a retiring storm, shadowing the mountain's side. The second compartment presents a nearer view of immense rocks in the dreary complexion of those stupendous deserts: the sun here scarcely affords a ray to cheer the gloomy scene. The fire-place forms the third: here the chimney glass is so let into the wall, that were it not for the real appearance of the hearth, imagination would suggest the entrance of an elegant arbour. In the fourth compartment the scene is continued, but with the placid effect of evening serenity here the shepherd tells his amorous tale to the attentive fair. The figures are happily introduced. This scene opens to an organ, with a figure of St. Cecilia, by Cipriani, who painted the landscape figures-as did Gil

pin the cattle. The ocean, bounded on one hand by hills and rocks, with a variety of characteristic accompaniments, complete the fifth scene. The ceiling represents a correspondent sky, seen through a circular treilliage, by Pastorini; the carpet resembles a mown lawn. The whole is admirably connected with the view from the windows, and adapted to convey a classical idea of a perfect landscape. The water to supply the house is raised by an engine, from a depth of 361 feet.-At Norbury many Roman coins have been found.

NORTHEND, a village in the parish of Fulham, between Hammersmith and Parson's Green. Here is Browne's House, the handsome villa of the Dowager Lady Heathcote, the gardens of which are finely disposed.

NORTHFLEET, a village in Kent, 21 miles from London. The church is uncommonly large; and, on the north wall, is a beautiful alabaster monument to the memory of Dr. Edward Browne, who resided at Ingress. He was physician to Charles II., and eminent for his skill in natural history, as appears from his Travels, published in 1685. The steeple commands a diversified prospect. Vast quantities of lime are burnt here. The grounds having been cut away, in different directions, for this purpose, a scene is exhibited perfectly romantic. Extraneous fossils have also been dug up. But the circumstance most worthy of observation is, that in the flint stones (of which there are frequent strata, and which are wrought up into flints for guns) complete cockleshells filled with chalk are found, and sometimes of so large a size as to be esteemed a great curiosity.

NORWOOD, a village in Surry, scattered round a large wild common, five miles from London, in the parishes of Croydon, Streatham, Lambeth, and Camberwell. It bears no marks of its vicinity to the capital; and those who love an occasional contemplation of unimproved nature, will find great satisfaction in a visit to this place. It was, some years ago, a principal haunt of the gipsies. At Norwood Green is Norwood House, the seat of William Spencer, Esq., remarkably well built, and surrounded by his own estate. The pleasure-grounds are laid out with much taste and beauty.

NORWOOD, a village of Middlesex, 11 miles from London, between the roads to Uxbridge and Hounslow. Dorman's Well, near Southall, in this parish (formerly

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the seat of Lord Dacre, and described by Norden, as surrounded by a park and pale) is now the property of George Merick Ayscough, Esq. The little chapel of Norwood is only an appendage to Hayes.

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AKS, the villa of the Earl of Derby, on Bansted

Downs, between Croydon and Dorking, was built

by a society of gentlemen, called the Hunters' Club, to whom the land was leased by Mr. Lambert. Mr. Simmons was the first occupier of the house, which was intended as a place of festivity in the hunting season. Sir Thomas Gosling afterward occupied it for a short time. General Burgoyne then purchased the lease, and built a dining room 42 feet by 21, with an arched roof, elegantly finished; 28 small cased pillars of fine workmanship, and a concave mirror at each end. The dining table is of plain deal boards, in conformity to the style of a hunting seat. The red hall entrance is small, but elegant: it contains two landscapes and a few other pictures. The drawing room, on the first floor, is an octagon, ornamented with a variety of small pictures. It commands a prospect of Norwood, Shooter's Hill, many churches in London and its environs, Hampstead, Highgate, &c. Lord Derby having acquired a fee simple in the estate, added, at the west end, a large brick building, with four towers at each corner; and there is a similar erection at the east end, which renders the structure uniform, and gives it an elegant Gothic appearance. In the pleasure grounds are a number of ancient beeches. In one tree, in particular, it is said, there is a spring; because it always contains water, although the well at the house is 300 feet deep. Lord Derby, who is remarkable for his hospitality to the gentlemen hunters, can accommodate his guests with upward of fifty bed chambers.-This circumstance forms a just picof ancient hospitality.

OATLANDS, adjoining to Weybridge, in Surry, the seat of the Duke of York, who purchased it of the Duke of Newcastle. The park is four miles round. The house is situated about the middle of the terrace, whose majestic graudeur, and the beautiful landscapes it commands, cannot be described by words. The serpentine river, when seen from the terrace, though artificial, appears as beau

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