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SION HOUSE.


[Illustration: Sion House.]


Taylor, the water poet, or Samuel Ireland, the picturesque Thames
tourist, could not, in all their enthusiasm of jingling rhymes and
aquatint plates, have exceeded our admiration of Sion House. Its
whitened towers and battlemented roof are known to all the swan-hopping
and steam navigators of our day, and none who have floated

To where the silver Thames first rural grows,--


can be strangers to the magnificence of the river-front.