text:  On a high conical hill above the mansion there stands a lofty gazebo of open iron-work commanding a view of we don't remember how many counties; but before our _cicerone_ had got half-way into an account of each of them with their capital towns the names of the present mayors and the noble families he had supplied with cricket-bats we had passed far away among the noble scenery of the oak district; and our friend launched into a description of oak plantations in general--the value of oaks per acre--the sum paid to Lord George for his estate which was bought by government fourteen years ago the last time the duke was in power-- "What duke?" An unlucky question for it led into a disquisition o all dukes ancient and modern and an encomium on the late Duke of Beaufort as the best soldier that England had ever produced