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« confinement when the fight is pent up in a narrow com- 
pafs,”. yet thefe formal followers of King William, ftrangers 
perhaps, or averfe to the funk fence, reared lofty walls 
around their improvements, and unkindly fhut out the 
view of the neighbouring country. However, they are 
to be excufed: they came from a country incapable of land- 
{cape. 
But they did not confine their. conftraint of nature to the 
limits of the garden: they trammelled her wherever they at- 
tempted to heighten her charms. The whole demefne. con- 
feffed their tyrannic power. Even the avenue affumed the 
gloom and appearance of the gothic cloifter: the ftately pine, 
the murky fir, or the “. ftar-proof” elm, were marfhalled in 
fraternal rows, nodding at each other, until their intermingled 
branches formed a verdant canopy excluding the face of Hea- 
ven*. Paflfing from this gloom you afcended to the dwelling- 
houfe, with “ aching feet,” terraces piled on terraces, covered 
with green parterres “ buttoned round” with flower-pots, and 
bearing on pedeftals in their centres the whole progeny of 
the heathen deities. Let it not be fuppofed I am indulging in 
fanciful defcriptions : I write from the information of my own 
obfervation; I have beheld in different parts of the kingdom 
[CG] veftiges 
* Some years fince I faw in the Earl of Clanbraffil’s gardens, at Dundalk, a walk anfwering 
this defcription. It reminded me of the long vifta through a Gothic cathedral ; and might, I 
think, be fafely adduced in fupport of Bifhop Warburton’s ingenious conjecture concerning the 
original of Gothic architecture. 
