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==References==

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Peters_(Continental_Congress)

http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1700s/peters_rich_hon.html


Sites

Belmont


Terms

Avenue, Green, Hedge, Labyrinth, Obelisk, Prospect, Statue, Summerhouse, Temple, Vase/Urn, Vista, Walk, Wood


Texts

"A broad walk of English Cheery trees leads down to the river. The doors of the house opening opposite admit a prospect of the length of the garden over a broad gravel walk to a large handsome summer house on a green. From the windows a vista is terminated by an obelisk. On the right you enter a labyrinth of hedge of low cedar and spruce. In the middle stands a statue of Apollo. In the garden are statues of Diana, Fame and Mercury with urns. We left the garden for a wood cut into vistas. In the midst is a Chinese temple for a summer house. One avenue gives a fine prospect of the City. With a spy glass you discern the houses and hospital distinctly. Another avenue looks to the obelisk."


"Belmont house is old, but is well built of stone and like all the Country houses, has a Piazza in front. I don't see why those in England should not have the same, which would secure a fine airy walk in all weathers, besides being ornamental to the building."

Images

References

Notes

  1. Vaux, George. 1888. “Extracts from the Diary of Hannah Callender.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 12 (1): 432–56. view on Zotero
  2. Foster, Kathleen A. 1997. Captain Watson’s Travels in America: The Sketchbooks and Diary of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1772-1818. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. view on Zotero

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