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THE SITUATION. 



It may perhaps appear presumptuous in me to assert, that 



the natural beauties of th 



little known, even to those who are best 



situation of Beaudesert are very 



quainted with the 



ipot 



yet 



will venture to assert, that those beauties 



which 



at present hidden, and almost totally lost, far exceed those 

 are obvious to every eye. The materials by which Na- 

 ture produces the chief beauties of Landscape are four in 

 number, viz. Inequality of Ground, Rocks, Water, and Wood- 





yet at Beaudesert it 

 which the other thr< 

 ground is 2 

 the valleys 



only the latter which abound 



to 



have all been sacrificed 



tob 



Inequality of 



obliterated by trees, which grow taller in 

 than on the hills ; and consequently the surface of 



ood, and the surface of the ground on which it grow 



often very different 



of vegetable growth has 



.uv gxuuuu un wnicn it grows, are 



but at Beaudesert this levelling principle 



e ravines, 



o ~~ & . „„ dt . lually almost eftaced the ^ 



"here t all ashes in the bottom rise above the oaks on the steep 



cclivities 



Surface of Wood. 



Surface of Ground* 



