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 FOURTH PERIOD 462 CAROLINE PARK floor a pretty little boudoir, still nicely decorated with painted panels. The cornice of this pavilion, with its inscription, is shown to a large scale in Fig. 894. The other pavilion contains the inscription, " George Vicoimt Tarbat," in lettering characteristic of the period. The lower floor was used as a larder or dairy in connection with the kitchen wing. There is a series of buttresses along the east wall, which have probably been added for security subsequently to the original construction. The south front of 1696 (Fig. 894) is a picturesque example of the style in vogue at the period, which shows a considerable advance towards the pure classic style, as compared with the north front. It will be observed that even at this date the suites of rooms are all built in "single tenements," and that there are no corridors placed so as to connect the principal apartments and give a separate access to each, but the rooms all enter through one another. Where separate access is required, it is still obtained by means of newel staircases. We see, however, the beginning of the corridor system introduced on the ground floor, where there is a separate passage from the kitchen to the south-west staircase, and also a passage between the south-west and south-east staircases. In 1739 Royston was purchased by the Duke of Argyll and Green- wich, from whom it passed, in 1793, by descent to Henry, Duke of Buccleuch, and it is still held by the present Duke. FIG. 896. Caroline Park. Railing over Entrance Porch. Lord Cockburn lived here in his youth, and he describes it as then being a delightful residence surrounded with ornamental walls and shrubbery, and having a gravelled court in front, with " a tall, curiously wrought iron gate flanked by two towers on the north." He also says, " The sea-gate, a composition of strong iron filagree, was the grandest gate in Scotland." This ornamental gate has now disappeared, but the elegant gate pillars of the north entrance still remain (Fig. 888). These pillars and the south front of the house show a great advance towards the classic style as early as 1696. Before purchasing Caroline Park, Sir G. Mackenzie lived at Holyrood, and it is interesting to notice the similarity of style between his new house and the Palace, which had shortly before been restored by Sir William Bruce and Robert Mylne, architects to the Duke of Lauderdale. This is especially striking in the internal finishings, plaster ceilings, iron-