Upon these parts of a residence, which should give a first and appropriate impression, Mr. Whate-ley has these just remarks:

"The road which leads up to the door of the mansion may go off from it in an equal angle, so that the two sides shall exactly correspond; and certain ornaments, though detached, are yet rather within the province of architecture than of gardening; works of sculpture are not, like buildings, objects familiar in scenes of cultivated nature; but vases, statues, and termini, are usual appendages to a considerable edifice: as such, they may attend the mansion, and trespass a little upon the garden, provided they are not carried so far into it as to lose their connexion with the structure. The platform and the road are also appurtenances to the house; all these may, therefore, be adapted to its form; and the environs will thereby acquire a degree of regularity; but to give it to the objects of nature, only on account of their proximity to others which are calculated to receive it, is, at the best, a refinement. " Upon the same principles regularity has been required in the approach; and an additional reason has been assigned for it, that the idea of a seat is thereby extended to a distance; but that may be by other means than by an avenue; a private road is easily known; if carried through grounds, or a park, it is commonly very apparent; even in a lane, here and there a bench, a painted gate, a small plantation, or any other little ornament, will sufficiently denote it.

If the entrance only be marked, simple preservation will retain the impression along the whole progress; or it may wind through several scenes distinguished by objects, or by an extraordinary degree of cultivation: and then the length of the way, and the variety of improvements through which it is conducted, may extend the appearance of domain and the idea of a seat, beyond the reach of any direct avenue. A narrow vista, a mere line of perspective, be the extent what it may, will seldom compensate for the loss of that space which it divides, and of the parts which it conceals.

"Regularity was, however, once thought essential to every garden and every approach; and it yet remains in many. It is still a character denoting the neighbourhood of a gentleman's habitation; and an avenue, as an object in a view, gives to a house, otherwise inconsiderable, the air of a mansion. Buildings which answer one another at the entrance of an approach, or on the sides of an opening, have a similar effect; they distinguish at once the precincts of a seat from the rest of the country. Some pieces of sculpture, also, such as vases and termini, may perhaps now and then be used to extend the appearance of a garden beyond its limits, and to raise the mead in which they are placed above the ordinary improvements of cultivated nature. At other times they may be applied as ornaments to the most polished lawns; the traditional ideas we have conceived of Arcadian scenes correspond with such decorations; and sometimes a solitary urn, inscribed to the memory of a person now no more, but who once frequented the shades where it stands, is an object equally elegant and interesting.

"The occasions, however, on which we may with any propriety trespass beyond the limits of cultivated nature, are very rare; the force of the character can alone excuse the artifice avowed in expressing it." - Whateley.