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Ts furniture. Many of the fine trees in the park have also been cut
down, and the whole appears neglected and desolate. His mother did not
like Navarre: he himself never saw it: the queen of Holland alone used
occasionally to reside here.--The principal beauty of the place lies in
its woods; and these we saw to the greatest advantage. It was impossible
for earth or sky to look more lovely.--The house is of stone, with large
windows; and an ill-shaped dome rises in the centre. The height of the
building is somewhat greater than its width, which makes it appear
top-heavy; and every thing about it is formal; but the noble avenue, the
terrace-steps, great lanthorns, iron gates, and sheets of water on
either side of the approach, are upon an extensive scale, and in a fine
baronial style.--Yet, still they are inferior to the accompaniments of
the same nature which are found about many noblemen's residences in
England.--The hall, which is spacious, has a striking effect, being open
to the dome. Its sides are painted with military trophies, and with the
warlike instruments of the four quarters of the globe. We saw nothing
else in the house worthy of notice. It is merely a collection of
apartments of moderate size; and, empty and dirty as they were, they
appeared to great disadvantage. In the midst of the solitude of
desolation, some ordinary portraits of the Bouillon family still remain
upon the walls, as if in mockery of departed greatness. We were unable
to direct our course to Cocherel, a village about sixteen miles distant,
on the road to Vernon, celebrated as the spot where a battle was fought,
in the fourteenth century, between the troops of Navarre, and those of
France, commanded by Du Guesclin.--I notice this place, because it is
possible that, if excavations were made there, those antiquaries who
delight in relics of the remotest age of European history, might win
many prizes. A tomb of great curiosity 
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