The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland . DIRLETON CASTLE. The vast ruins of this castle rise from what at a distance seems a gentle elevation, but, on anear approach, is seen to be a sharp perpendicular rock, though of tio great height. It is sur-rounded by a considerable stretch of garden and pleasure ground, kept in punctilious order. Mixedwith some ancient trees, the taste of the proprietor has attended to the preservation of a few of themore peculiar and uncommon vestiges of ancient gardening—thick, hard hedges of prevet and yew,impervious as green walls, with heie and the
The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland . DIRLETON CASTLE. The vast ruins of this castle rise from what at a distance seems a gentle elevation, but, on anear approach, is seen to be a sharp perpendicular rock, though of tio great height. It is sur-rounded by a considerable stretch of garden and pleasure ground, kept in punctilious order. Mixedwith some ancient trees, the taste of the proprietor has attended to the preservation of a few of themore peculiar and uncommon vestiges of ancient gardening—thick, hard hedges of prevet and yew,impervious as green walls, with heie and there bushes clipped into artificial forms. Exhibited in asuccession of formal terraces, or on a continuous flat plain, this species of gardening often becomesintolerable. But roimd the gloomy ruins of Dirleton, and in immediate connexion with a forest-like assemblage of venerable trees, all feeling of hard, flat uniformity is lost, and the very stiffnessand angularity of the outlines afford a not unpleasant contrast with the rest of the scene. The origi
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