. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. A NT m LI TIES OK SCOTLAND lis Dirleton Castle. •HE vast ruins of this castle rise from what at a distanceseems a gentle elevation, but, on a near approach, is seento be a sharp perpendicular rock, though ot no greatheight. It is surrounded by a considerable stretch ofgarden and pleasure ground, kept in punctilious with some ancient trees, the taste of the proprietortended to the preservation of a few of the more peculiar andimon vestiges of ancient gardening—thick, hard hedges ofprevet and yew, impervious as green walls, w
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. A NT m LI TIES OK SCOTLAND lis Dirleton Castle. •HE vast ruins of this castle rise from what at a distanceseems a gentle elevation, but, on a near approach, is seento be a sharp perpendicular rock, though ot no greatheight. It is surrounded by a considerable stretch ofgarden and pleasure ground, kept in punctilious with some ancient trees, the taste of the proprietortended to the preservation of a few of the more peculiar andimon vestiges of ancient gardening—thick, hard hedges ofprevet and yew, impervious as green walls, with here and therebushes clipped into artificial forms. Exhibited in a succession offormal terraces, or on a continuous flat plain, this species of gardening oftenbecomes intolerable. But round the gloomy ruins of Dirleton, and inimmediate connexion with a forest-like assemblage of venerable trees, allfeeling of hard, flat unitbrmity is lost, and the very stiftness and angularityof the outlines afford a not unpleasant contrast with the rest of thescene. The original plan of the edifice appears to
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