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plan more objectionable in its consequences 



tial characteristic of a Villa 



seclusion and privacy 



the 



for as the even 



th 



metropolis consists ,,, j| s 



e walk which is only separate,! lrom 



the highway by a park paling, and a few laurels _ 

 private, thongh far less cheerful, than the path b'i"^Z 



not more 



may 



added, that such 



belt, when viewed 



from the house, must confine the landscape by the pale to h 



then by the shrubs to hide the pale; and lasllv 



road 



the fen 



to protect the shrub 



which all together act 



~> ■*•«*« *u together act as a 

 boundary more decided and offensive than the common hod« 



betwixt one field and another 



The Art of Land 



s 



cap 



Gard 



g is m no instance more 



obliged to Mr. Brown, than for his occasionally judicious intro 



! or sunk fence, by which he united ii 



duction of the Ha! Ha 



parate 



But 



appearance two surfaces necessary to be kept s< 



this has been in many places absurdly copied to an extent that 



gives more actual confinement than any visible fence whatever 



small 



At Streatham the view towards the south consists of a 

 field bounded by the narrow belt, and beyond it is the Common 

 of Streatham, which is in parts adorned by groups of trees, and 



in others disfigured by a red 



ndance of obtrusive hous 



Tl 



common in itself is a cheerful object, and from its distance not 



offensive, even when covered with people who enjoy its vcr- 

 ure. Yet if the whole of the view in front were open to the 

 common, it might render the house and ground near it too 



public 



y 



and for this reason, I suppose, some shrubs have been 



placed near the windows; but I consider that the defect might 





