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THE REIGN

judgement. It was kept constantly filled with artillery, and all sorts of ammunition, to an immense amount: another front was composed of the War Office; a third of the Admiralty; and the fourth of the Barracks; all buildings that would challenge the world for rivals, and which together formed the most perfect and beautiful square in Europe.

But while these celebrated piles of magnificence were raising: the King was employing some part of his time in laying out the gardens of his palace; he neglected any such additions for some years, the woods which almost surrounded him were of themselves so beautiful: but at last he formed the scheme of sketching gardens equal to his palace: he drew several plans himself; these amusements and employments were worthy such a Monarch as George, and no man could succeed in them better: be-hind