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cate the great secret of true happim ^_« Not to wish for 

 is not by adding field to field, or by taking away I, 

 by removing roads to a distance, that the character of a fill 

 to be improved: it is by availing ourselves of e\. , 





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stance of interest or beauty within our reach, and b v hid 



objects as cannot be viewed 



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with pleasure: for I Inn 



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often found, in places of the largest extent, that their principal 

 views are annoyed l>y some patch of alien prop rlx. life) 

 Naboth's vineyard; some 



" -Angiitis illc 

 " Qui nunc denormat agelliim." 



It seldom falls to I he lot of the improver to be Called upon 

 for his opinion on places of great extent, and of vast range of 

 unblended and uninterrupted property, like Longleate or Wo- 

 burn : while in the neighbourhood of every city or manufac- 

 turing town, new places as villas are daily springing up, and 

 these, with a few acres, require all the conveniences, comforts, 



and appendages, of larger and more sumptuous, if not more 



expensive places. And as these have of late had the greatest 

 claim on my attention, and may perhaps be found more gener- 



ally useful to those who wish to enjoy the seen, ry of the coun- 

 try, without removing too far from active life, I shall produce 



some examples of places of this description, and make such 

 extracts from the Reports as may become interesting to all who 

 make new purchases, and create new scenes in the neighbour- 

 hood of the metropolis, or of any large town. 



