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out the grounds in the immediate vicinity of the mansion. Among the recent embellishments of the place is a new bridge across the rivulet, in front of the house, and widening the course of the stream, so as to give it the appearance of a lake. Contiguous to this water, and intermixed in a fine grove of large trees, are the various fragments of the ruins already noticed. Some of these are interesting relics of architectural antiquity; and though several detached parts remain, yet we cannot (says Britton) but regret the wasteful destruction that has taken place at this once celebrated place of monastic splendour and human superstition."--_Beauties of England and Wales_, vol. ix.--Norfolk. It has been supposed that Henry the Eighth, tempted by the riches and splendour of the religious houses at Walsingham, precipitated their fall. P.T.W. * * * * * TAPESTRY IN WINDSOR CASTLE. (_To the Editor._) There are _six_ pieces of tapestry in the Ball-room adjoining St. George's Hall, Windsor Castle; and the subject is Jason and the Golden Fleece. In your account you stated four. A SUBSCRIBER. * * * * * COWSLIPS.--A SONNET. BY HENRY BRANDRETH, JUN. _Author of Minstrel Melodies, The Garland, &c._ COWSLIPS--sweet Cowslips! I scarce know a flower More prized than is the cowslip. Childhood's hand Plucks it as if by instinct. Every land Has some peculiar flowret--this the bower, The mountain that adorning. April's shower The modest primrose sifts with beauty bland, Or o'er the blue-bell waves her fairy wand, The delegate of Flora's magic power. But most love I the cowslip, with its fair And fragrant petals, studding, as with gold, The emerald meadow, or the hedge-row green; For, while the laugh of Infancy is there, The heart must be as very marble cold Of him who frowns on such a joyous scene. * * * * * The Naturalist, * * * * * THE WHITE-HEADED, OR BALD EAGLE.[2] (From Wilson's _American Ornithology,_ judiciously re-printed in two volumes of _Constable's Miscellany._) [2] The epithet _bald_, applied to this species, whose head is thickly covered with feathers, is equally improper and absurd with the titles goatsucker, kingsfisher, &c. bestowed on others, and seems to have been occasioned by the white appearance
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