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We assure our respected Northern Correspondent, that the Legend respecting the Primogenitor of the Clan Mackenzie, shall appear in our next.

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The Storm and Lines to the Lea shall have a place, if possible, in our next Number. Wefully calculated upon a communication from T. If any has been sent, it has not reached our hands.

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ST. LEONARD'S HILL, THE SEAT OF EARL HARCOURT.

THE very fine situation of this elegant abode must be seen to be appreciated. It stands on the brow of a commanding and finely wooded hill, in the immediate vicinity of Windsor Forest, and surrounded by an immense extent of the richest country.

Our View of the House is from the Lawn, shewing in the distance Windsor Castle, which is seen to most advantage from this spot, and forms, with Eton College, a principal feature in this noble scene, which extends across the rich uplands of Buckinghamshire, and embraces Middlesex and Surrey. The house is very irregular in its construction, which is generally the result of frequent additions. The site was formerly occupied by a gamekeeper's lodge only, but it became of suffici

Vol. III. No. XV.

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ent importance to be fit for the occasional residence of Wm. Pitt, Earl of Chatham, who took great delight in retiring for a short time to this beautiful spot, when he was secretary at war. It came into the possession of the Countess-Dowager of Waldegrave, afterwards Duchess of Glou cester, who added so considerably to the old building as to render it truly comfortable. A colonnade extends from the conservatory in front of the breakfast-room and hall to the main building, forming a pleasing connection, enriched with columns and decorations in the Roman Doric order, which, with its treillage, the variety of plants and flowering shrubs that grace the entrance, and its irregularity of surface, produce an effect in the highest degree elegant, pleasS

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