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 ¬that free country are indiscriminately admitted, not only in carriages or on horseback, but on foot also. — Indeed, the distant view of it had so raised my desire to see it, that nothing but its real excellence could have saved me from the utmost disappointment. — As we approached the spot, I observed the most smooth and beautiful ex- panse of lawn in every direction, and quite open, except as it was bounded unseen by the general and distant enclosure, and there were tracks, winding through it, which shewed that carriages might almost every where pass. — The whole extent was most happily ornamented with groups of the finest trees, dispersed in the most fasci- nating variety, and in the full pride of all the foliage of the year. — I could not now help ex- pressing my surprize that not one carriage, though so remarkably numerous in all other quarters, nor any one individual mounted, or on foot, were to be seen in any part of this ter- restrial paradise, though our view extended above a mile all around us. — My young friend smiled at me, saying, I should very soon be ¬gratified ¬