Lancaster, Robert Alexander, 1862- [from old catalog] · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 366
h balustrades bearing stone urns, slopes to thelevel of the park. Below the terrace and just in front ofthe stairway is an ancient sun-dial, and beyond this lies tothe northward a great grove of old oaks and cedars, oncethe home of a goodly herd of deer. The back windows of the house look southward… … THE RAPPAHANNOCK AND POTOMAC 341 slope to a level piece of greensward in their midst, knownas the Bowling Green. In the garden, on the right,covered by ivy and shaded hy willows, are some brickarches which call to mind monastic remains in the ancientEnglish parks, but are really the ruins of an old…
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