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Wherever a natural glen or ravine exists, we shall generally 

 find rock or water, or both, under the surface ; and we know 

 that they abound in the deep dell immediately in front of the 

 house, although at present they are hardly visible, being buried 

 under the surface. 



The following sketch will serve to display the capabilities 

 of this place, and discover the true >il nation of Beaiidesert in 

 such a manner, as may induce those, who only view the present 

 visible state, to say, " Quam multa vident pictores in umbris et 



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eminentiis quae 



dem 



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To bring these hide I 



beauties into notice, the process is very simple : remove the tall 

 trees in the bottom, prevent the water from burying itself in the 

 ground, by stopping the current of the different streamlets with 

 edges of large stones, wherever the natural channel is narrow- 



est, make every drop of water visible on a hard surface, and 

 yet let the whole appear the work of Nature, and not of Art. 



CONCERNING THE TREES, VIEW TO THE NORTH. 



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As much of the improvement of Beaudesert will depend on 

 judicious removal of certain large trees, which have out- 

 grown their relative situations, I will defend myself from that 

 clamour which he must expect who dares presume to advise 

 the felling of large trees. After forty years acquaintance with 

 the subject, I now am frequently told, as if unconscious of such 

 truisms, that " a large tree has been a long time growing," and 

 also " that, when cut down, it cannot be put up again :" but there 







