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of towers and spires appeared shooting above the head of a tail grove, whose darkness and mass were beautifully relieved by the turrets of the one, and the thin tapering form 01 the other. Just at this point, the picture was compleat; for as we ings introduced themselves, and the Features became more incongruous and unpicluresque. "Warwick is of regular figure, consisting of two chief streets, which cross each other at right angles, and take the direction of the cardinal points. Its public buildings, ancient and modern, are of beautifui architecture, particularly the courts of justice, and debtor's prison; the former built in a richly orna- mented style, the latter of the Doric school, both of freestone. The private dwellings are for the most part handsome; and what is still more agree- able, a general character of neatness and cleanliness attaches to them all. The beautiful sylvan scenery of the Prior,, Mr. Wise's seat, is a happy circum- stance in the neighbourhood of a large town; the environs of which, in general, are either disfigured with squalid habitations, the residence of poverty i i taste ot the counter.
 * cached nearer to the town, the modern build-
 * al mistiness, or distorted by the whimsies and

But the proudest boasi of Warwick is its mag- nificent castle, the scat of the Earl fo whom the

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